Doctors treating patients in Gaza have accused Israel of using experimental weapons on Palestinian civilians.

Addressing reporters at a press conference on Sunday, Youssef Abul Resh, undersecretary of the health ministry in Gaza, said, “Medical teams have registered injuries consistent with those caused by DIME [dense inert metal explosives] and other banned weapons.”

He added, “Israel has mercilessly targeted Palestinian civilians, leaving many of them with life-threatening injuries and future handicaps.”

In the last week, Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 190 people, eighty percent of them civilians, including at least 34 children.

Using Gaza as a laboratory

DIME munitions were developed by the US Air Force in 2006 and have since been tested repeatedly on the people of Gaza, who have long served as involuntary lab rats for Israel’s weapons industry.

DIME bombs contain tungsten, a cancer-causing metal that helps to produce incredibly destructive blasts which slice through flesh and bone, often decapitating the lower limbs of people within the blast radius.

Renowned Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, who witnessed the horrific injuries caused by DIME bombs during Israel’s 2009 Gaza onslaught, told The Electronic Intifada over the phone from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City that patients are showing up with DIME-related injuries.

“A good number of the injuries seen here are consistent with the use of dense inert metal explosives, or DIME, that we saw during the 2009 attack and also in 2006,” said Gilbert. “The bodies are pretty much destroyed by enormous energy released by the explosives that are shot near them or at them.”

Gilbert first witnessed the effects of DIME munitions on the human body during Operation Summer Rains, Israel’s 2006 months-long attack on the Gaza Strip that killed more than four hundred Palestinians. “Large chunks of flesh, of muscles were cut away. We didn’t find any shrapnel and [the wounds] were delivering a strange fume. Gradually we came to understand these must have been the new DIME weapons developed by the US Air Force together with the Israelis,” he said.

The experimental weapon was used on a larger scale during Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s attack on Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009, which killed 1,400 Palestinians, including 352 children.

“We had a large number of patients who came in with these horrendous injuries where arms and legs were cut off as though a huge axe had chopped off their limbs with a direct immense force, cutting through skin, muscles and bones. Bones would be shattered and completely cut off,” Gilbert recounted. “In addition we saw very, very destructive burns coming from some extreme temperature that turned skin, muscle and even bones into charcoal.”

Gilbert said that governments around the world should send forensic experts to Gaza to “analyze the tissue samples from the wounds of the injured and analyze more thoroughly those who are killed,” as well as scientists to follow up with those who have survived DIME blasts. Those survivors have an extremely high risk of developing cancer, Gilbert fears.

But Gilbert warned that focusing on the DIME weapons, which are not explicity banned under international law, risks distracting from Israel’s far more damaging crimes against the people of Gaza.

“The siege and the constant bombing of civilian targets — those two issues are much more important than if [the Israelis] choose to use a traditional shell with a grenade or a DIME weapon,” he argued.


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are you suggesting that the Israelis should drop less harmful, um, bombs from their military aircraft?

F**k with the bull and you get the horns. The Palestinians can't have it both ways where they shoot rockets into Israel and then want to cry foul when Israel fires back.

Haha

You actually believe that?

You must not know about the fake ****, with actual actors, the Palestinians have been pulling for years...just for suckers like you

(07-15-2014 09:19 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  DIME bombs contain tungsten, a cancer-causing metal that helps to produce incredibly destructive blasts which slice through flesh and bone, often decapitating the lower limbs of people within the blast radius.

Considering the purpose of weapons are to kill people and break things, these DIME bombs sound like pretty effective weapons.

And maybe if Hamas actually used weapons to protect Civilians as opposed to using Civilians to protect their weapons, the casualty count would be much lower.

(07-15-2014 09:19 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Doctors treating patients in Gaza have accused Israel of using experimental weapons on Palestinian civilians.

Addressing reporters at a press conference on Sunday, Youssef Abul Resh, undersecretary of the health ministry in Gaza, said, “Medical teams have registered injuries consistent with those caused by DIME [dense inert metal explosives] and other banned weapons.”

He added, “Israel has mercilessly targeted Palestinian civilians, leaving many of them with life-threatening injuries and future handicaps.”

In the last week, Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 190 people, eighty percent of them civilians, including at least 34 children.

Using Gaza as a laboratory

DIME munitions were developed by the US Air Force in 2006 and have since been tested repeatedly on the people of Gaza, who have long served as involuntary lab rats for Israel’s weapons industry.

DIME bombs contain tungsten, a cancer-causing metal that helps to produce incredibly destructive blasts which slice through flesh and bone, often decapitating the lower limbs of people within the blast radius.

Renowned Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, who witnessed the horrific injuries caused by DIME bombs during Israel’s 2009 Gaza onslaught, told The Electronic Intifada over the phone from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City that patients are showing up with DIME-related injuries.

“A good number of the injuries seen here are consistent with the use of dense inert metal explosives, or DIME, that we saw during the 2009 attack and also in 2006,” said Gilbert. “The bodies are pretty much destroyed by enormous energy released by the explosives that are shot near them or at them.”

Gilbert first witnessed the effects of DIME munitions on the human body during Operation Summer Rains, Israel’s 2006 months-long attack on the Gaza Strip that killed more than four hundred Palestinians. “Large chunks of flesh, of muscles were cut away. We didn’t find any shrapnel and [the wounds] were delivering a strange fume. Gradually we came to understand these must have been the new DIME weapons developed by the US Air Force together with the Israelis,” he said.

The experimental weapon was used on a larger scale during Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s attack on Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009, which killed 1,400 Palestinians, including 352 children.

“We had a large number of patients who came in with these horrendous injuries where arms and legs were cut off as though a huge axe had chopped off their limbs with a direct immense force, cutting through skin, muscles and bones. Bones would be shattered and completely cut off,” Gilbert recounted. “In addition we saw very, very destructive burns coming from some extreme temperature that turned skin, muscle and even bones into charcoal.”

Gilbert said that governments around the world should send forensic experts to Gaza to “analyze the tissue samples from the wounds of the injured and analyze more thoroughly those who are killed,” as well as scientists to follow up with those who have survived DIME blasts. Those survivors have an extremely high risk of developing cancer, Gilbert fears.

But Gilbert warned that focusing on the DIME weapons, which are not explicity banned under international law, risks distracting from Israel’s far more damaging crimes against the people of Gaza.

“The siege and the constant bombing of civilian targets — those two issues are much more important than if [the Israelis] choose to use a traditional shell with a grenade or a DIME weapon,” he argued.


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Hamas uses civilians as human shields and you post that garbage. Your hatred of Jews would make Hitler proud. Whey do liberals hate the Jews so much. I guess because they stand their ground and protect themselves. A liberal just hides in the corner like the cowards they are. So be a good Nazi and hate the Jews. Wear that with pride.

if they aren't careful, someone is going to get hurt in this war.

Don't throw rocks at people with guns.

(07-15-2014 09:19 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Doctors treating patients in Gaza have accused Israel of using experimental weapons on Palestinian civilians.

So, you admit to spreading Hamas propaganda, or falling head first for it.....

(07-15-2014 09:39 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Don't throw rocks at people with guns.

. . . or do. it's up to them. I mean, what could go wrong?

34 dead Palestinian children is not propaganda. Using these weapons on a civilian population with children ending up dead. Have you no shame?

How can anyone justify any country targeting a civilian population?



Because some people threw rocks????????????? Are you people INSANE?????

(07-15-2014 09:51 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  How can anyone justify any country targeting a civilian population?

I'm not sure there is a civilian population in gaza. Certainly not an easily identifiable one.

(07-15-2014 09:48 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  34 dead Palestinian children is not propaganda. Using these weapons on a civilian population with children ending up dead. Have you no shame?

Who were Hamas' rockets targeting?

Um, and who fired the first rocket?

(07-15-2014 09:51 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  How can anyone justify any country targeting a civilian population?



Because some people threw rocks????????????? Are you people INSANE?????

Then there's those rockets being launched into civilian population centers in Israel.

Kids being killed sucks... no matter who or what they are. As children they don't know any better than what thwy are taught. That said, in my opinion Israel is fully within their rights to defend themselves. Hamas doesn't care how many children they kill. They don't care how many of their own are killed. Personally I think it's time for another 3 day war. Let Israel take the gloves off and clean up their corner of the middle east.

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(07-15-2014 09:48 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  34 dead Palestinian children is not propaganda. Using these weapons on a civilian population with children ending up dead. Have you no shame?

Here is a picture you will enjoy. Just a few of the six million Jews that died at the hands of the Nazis. Don't get too excited viewing these pics. I know how much the site of dead Jews makes you happy.




Here is a video that you will also enjoy. The shooting of Jews no doubt brings you joy. So enjoy...

(07-15-2014 09:51 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  How can anyone justify any country targeting a civilian population?

Why don't you ask Muslim terrorists

(07-15-2014 10:07 PM)MemphisTiger15 Wrote:  

(07-15-2014 09:51 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  How can anyone justify any country targeting a civilian population?

Why don't you ask Muslim terrorists

Winner

(07-15-2014 10:07 PM)MemphisTiger15 Wrote:  

(07-15-2014 09:51 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  How can anyone justify any country targeting a civilian population?

Why don't you ask Muslim terrorists

See our buddy Mach doesn't see the shooting of rockets into a civilian population by Hamas as targeting a civilian population. His Fuhrer, Obama, has taught him to hate the Jews, so that is what he does. He ignores who targets civilians with hundreds of rockets because his leader could care less about the death of Jews. Hitler would be proud of Machiavelli.