Israel Used US-Supplied White Phosphorous in Attack on Southern Lebanon

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1. How much bloody money do we give to Israel EVERY YEAR?????……………………………………………………………..

   1. Not just the money. Illegal weapons, knowing where they will be used.

      The usage of white phosphorus is restricted under international humanitarian law. Although there can be lawful uses, it must never be fired at, or in close proximity to, a populated civilian area or civilian infrastructure, due to the high likelihood that the fires and smoke it causes spread. Such attacks, which fail to distinguish between civilians and civilian objects and fighters and military objectives, are indiscriminate and thus prohibited.
      White phosphorus is an incendiary substance mostly used to create a dense smoke screen or mark targets. When exposed to air, it burns at extremely high temperatures and often starts fires in the areas in which it is deployed. People exposed to white phosphorus can suffer respiratory damage, organ failure and other horrific and life-changing injuries, including burns that are extremely difficult to treat and cannot be put out with water. Burns affecting only 10 percent of the body are often fatal.

      https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/lebanon-evidence-of-israels-unlawful-use-of-white-phosphorus-in-southern-lebanon-as-cross-border-hostilities-escalate/

      1. https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/11/the-chris-hedges-report-the-weapons-israel-tests-on-palestinians-will-be-used-against-all-of-us/ Oh yes, we are customers too.

         1. Have you read this?

            IDENTITY VERIFICATION OR DATA EXPOSURE? TWITTER USING ISRAELI TECH FIRM HEADED BY EX-MILITARY OFFICIALS TO VERIFY USERS

            AU10TIX, an Israeli identity verification company founded by former Israeli intelligence officials that stores the data for 30 days before, according to X, it will be deleted…We’re talking about giving that information to not just Twitter, but to a third party,” Jason Kelley, activism director for digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, told MintPress News. “In any kind of verification scenario, whether it’s going online to verify your age or verify your actual address, there should be concerns.”
            https://www.mintpressnews.com/identity-verification-or-data-exposure-twitter-using-israeli-tech-firm-headed-by-ex-military-officials-to-verify-users/286156/

2. Are you bloody well kidding???! War Crimes, crimes against humanity?……………………………………………………………………..
   You all better lawyer up…………………………………………………..

   1. When you are the judge and jury what need is there for a lawyer?

      1. When you are a Palestinian, what need is there for your life?

   2. Donna: I love you and your caring comments but this shit is never getting into any court.

3. How about let’s force everyone in the US who supports the US-subsidized/enabled State of Israel’s unrestricted warfare to enlist in the IDF, travel to Palestine with a box of kitchen matches as their only weapon and be deployed to the front lines forthwith? Oh…I forgot: there’s no US military draft right now. Yet.

   1. Almost all young men in America who have hit 18 years of age, have to sign up for selective service. If there is no draft, then why are they compelled to sign up? I remember how much fun it was for me to report for the draft in 1965.

      1. These days, they don’t even have to “sign up.” Most kids (including both of my younger ones) just got a card in the mail right after their 18th birthdays informing them they’d been automatically registered.

         1. IOW: there’s no actual conscription at the moment. I get it.

      2. I am a veteran dodger of Gen. Hershey’s first sweepstakes.

   2. How about everyone who supports China and Venezuela moving there.

      1. Way better idea than their moving here!

4. “Israel used US-provided white phosphorous”

   That’s racists?

5. Yeah, who launched attacks first?

   Hezbollah did.

   If you dont want to go to war, do not attack.
   Simple.

   1. poor Israel, always the victim, right?
      they are never to blame are they. at least as long as their friends are the ones who set the narrative anyway.

      evidence Israel killed its own citizens on 7 October
      https://electronicintifada….

      How IDF killed its Own Citizens on Oct. 7
      Max Blumenthall and Chris Hedges
      https://www.islamicity.org/…

      Israel Admits It Killed Its Own At Nova Music Festival
      https://www.google.com/sear…

      i guess one could call that friendly-fire (accidental collateral damage),
      but another one might call it false-flag operation.

      1. Reminds me of Emil Cosman from YouTube explaining how he never heard about a bully who is always the victim

   2. If you do not want a war, don’t keep 2.3 million people in an open air prison. Maybe also don’t kill twice as many kids as the 2,985 from all conflicts in 2022 (including big bad Putin’s invasion of Ukraine https://www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-3195-children-killed-three-weeks-surpasses-annual-number-children-killed-conflict-zones). But I can see why you Neo-Cons want censorship so much in the service of Israel. No one with any critical thinking is buying your BS

      1. I wouldn’t need any “critical thinking” if God chose me, either.

      2. Another classic case of someone intelligent wasting their time speaking to an idiot or moron which ever term you prefer.

         1. Maybe I should stick to teaching pigs to sing. That movie Babe made it look so easy

            1. 🙂

            2. Paladin and Wendell, you’re my buddies but please don’t insult …the pigs. Besides, “Pigs are magical. They eat garbage and make bacon.”–Jim Gaffigan.

      3. Gaza is a test bed for weapons, surveillance methods. https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/11/the-chris-hedges-report-the-weapons-israel-tests-on-palestinians-will-be-used-against-all-of-us/

      4. Heinlein said war is caused by overpopulation.Can Israel really admit 2.3 million hostile people and still have a country-no way.

         1. South-Africa made it work. Or rather we all made South-Africa make it work. Which is why Israel is scared to death of BDS. Or the US federal government just looking after its own citizens and not catering to a foreign country.

            1. South Africa is now a crime ridden hellhole. Jews were evicted from their homes in the Arab world,and can expect to receive the same from a so called free Palestine. As far as BDS-no one sanctions China for its destruction of Tibet,and there is considerable support on this site for the destruction of a free Taiwan.

6. Again, zero bitch!ng from the dictator lovers here when Russia used white phosphorus and cluster munitions in Ukraine.

   But now they’re screaming.

   The hypocrisy just gets worse.

   1. What about the white phosphorous WE gave Kiev to use on Russians and Ukraine citizens in Donbas areas.

7. When Biden, Blinken & Sullivan say “no red lines” they are pronouncing Israel (as Washington) an Exceptional Nation, exempt from the rules, Nuremberg, Geneva and UN Charter on crimes against humanity and laws of war. … and Palestinians (like Russians), not.

   1. As we used to say”who died and made them judge”

8. Israel is so nice. “Israel Used US-Supplied White Phosphorous in Attack on Southern Lebanon.”

   1. Use of WP is against every rule or custom of warfare and thousands of years ago would have been banned in the Ten Commandments.It really makes a basic statement about countries that use this vile stuff.

      1. You have a heart of gold Wendell. 🙂

      2. Incendiary weapons have been used in warfare for thousands of years. The Assyrians were catapulting pots full of flaming chemical at enemies circa 900 BC, and by the 7th century AD the Romans were using “Greek fire” in naval warfare.

         White phosphorous is some nasty stuff. Water won’t put it out. It has to be smothered so it can’t get oxygen. But overall probably no worse than napalm, just different characteristics.

      3. Breaking women’s legs in order to make it easier to rape them-is that an acceptable method of warfare.Taking babies hostages-acceptable?

9. The use of white phosphorus may violate Protocol III (on the use of incendiary weapons) of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCCW) in one specific instance: if it is used, on purpose, as an incendiary weapon directly against humans in a civilian setting.Oct 20, 2023

   Israel used white phosphorus in Lebanon to burn brush under which many Hezbollah military positions such as bunkers were hidden. Its use in this regard is completely legitimate.

   1. “Israel used white phosphorus in Lebanon to burn brush under which many Hezbollah military positions such as bunkers were hidden.”

      The Israeli military claims it only uses white phosphorous to create smokescreens to protect its troops

      I guess “only” has more than one meaning.

      1. Despite the reporting on Monday in the Washington Post, quoting human rights groups that Israel used U.S.-made white phosphorus bombs to attack villages in southern Lebanon, the use by the IDF was in unpopulated areas where military targets were found. Either way, the use of white phosphorus was confirmed by the military spokesperson.
         Speaking to reporters following the Post’s report, National Security Advisor John Kirby said the use of the weapons was not a violation of international accords, if they did not target non-combatant civilians
         In South Lebanon, unpopulated areas are often used to house Hezbollah facilities and frontline bases for their elite Radwan force which could be used to launch attacks on Israel.
         Hezbollah hides mortar and anti-tank missile launchers in those bases, which are covered by thick vegetation that prevents intelligence surveillance from the air and has dug bunkers to protect from IDF artillery fire. They are an immediate threat to the border region, making them a target of Israeli strikes aimed also at revealing them.
         By bombing the bases with phosphorus bombs, the IDF hopes to ignite the vegetation covering the bases and create a smoke screen that would enable the Hezbollah force to fire anti-tank missiles at IDF soldiers and positions and Israeli civilians near the Israel-Lebanon border.

         1. “the use by the IDF was in unpopulated areas where military targets were found”

            The white phosphorous incinerated at least four homes, and three out of the nine civilians who were injured in the attack had to be hospitalized.

            1. Plus, I have a hard time believing anything Israel says.

            2. I still have hope, I do. I love Israel and I love Palestine too! I LOVE IRAN!

            3. But you will believe everything put out by Hamas or Russia.

   2. How in the h*ll do we know that, if we get our information from Israel?????

10. The production code on the shells showed that they were produced in the US.

    I remember when Nukey Haley was the US ambassador and she did a ‘show and tell’ at the UN showing remnants of Iranian weapons that were used in Iraq, I believe. She then suggested they should be punished for doing so. I’m guessing she wouldn’t be inclined to feel the same way about the US.

    1. And while the US military used WP in Iraqi cities like Mosul. This was documented on film.

    2. I guess you have to be a warmonger to run for office.

       1. Pretty much. But you have to call it a support for national security, democracy, the American way.

    3. Remember the chemical weapons that we let Saddam use on Iran’s soldiers?

11. While damning Israel we ought to keep in our mental files that the US and its ‘coalition of the willing’ lackeys destroying Iraq and many of its people was fifty times worse. . .a quick scan of the web on white phosphorus for an example:

    The March/April 2005 issue of an official Army publication called Field Artillery Magazine reported that “White phosphorus proved to be an effective and versatile munition and a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes. …

    The “insurgents” were just Iraqi people who didn’t want the US in its country.

    1. We also helped the Brits destroy Germany and Japan, which included many women and children and churches and beautiful cities.

       We are still the only country in history to use WMD on civilians. .

       Not to mention what we did in southeast Asia with chemical weapons and indiscriminate slaughter.

       USA is a very spiritually sick culture.

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