US-led coalition forces have fired white phosphorus shells into the
farmland surrounding the ISIS-held village of Baghouz, in eastern Syria.
Reports suggest the shelling began overnight.
Syrian state media agency SANA confirmed the attack, saying the US strikes and ensuing fires in the farmland had killed a number of women and children who were trying to flee Baghouz.
The US has yet to comment on the matter. The use of white phosphorus is
legally problematic under international law. It is technically allowed
for illumination purposes, but are prohibited for use near civilians, or
for attacks on forces co-located with civilians, which the village of
Baghouz certainly is.
The timing is likely to fuel some questions as well, as the use of the
WP comes amid claims by President Trump that ISIS has already been 100%
defeated. This makes the point of further attacks around Baghouz
unclear.
What is it with the US and Israel murdering children on farms? That seems like a really specific psychotic fetish that the two share. Think about it, every other news report from the West Bank involves tikes getting cut down in a cabbage patch. Some sick f**king people running this gangster empire, is all I’ll say…
There’s NO excuse whatsoever, Comrade Hermit, for the US coalition to use white phosphorus – a banned weapon, btw. The use of such a weapon is a war crime and a crime against humanity.
You’re right; think about it, every other news report from the West Bank involves kids getting cut down in a cabbage patch. It seems like a really psychotic fetish the US/Israel share. This has to stop immediately; NO EXCUSES.
Exactly ! We have bombed countries for using white phosphorus!?
And they call them “ISIS” even if they are not, as justification, when it’s really nothing more than an SDF land grab.
Why aren’t these things on our News channels ?! Videos, etc. They are keeping us distracted by other news that isn’t as important.
I’m tired if being kept in the dark about important matters that our tax dollars are supporting ! Murder is not something that I will support with them !
Where civilians are present, white phosphorus is using chemical warfare. Something Assad wasn’t found to have done. But the US military has.
But using heinous weapons is OK if the the good guys are doing it.
The USA now feels comfortable using any weapons it thinks of on innocent civilians. Next cluster bombs, which it is one of the few countries not to ban???
Actually, probably no cluster bombs as they want the Kurds to occupy safely.
If any Kurds are killed by unexploded munitions, the US line will just be that they were booby traps left behind by IS.
Since when would anyone’s safety matter to us? Especially the Kurds.
Agreed, but there’s a numbers problem.
Presumably the Deep State is at least smart enough not to waste the few more or less loyal Syrian meeples they have left on the board.
The Syrian Kurds are the last indigenous Syrians that the U.S. can sort-of count on as allies on the ground. Most if not all pro-Western Sunni were borged into the IS.
BUT ABORTIONS ARE EVIL !?
Military surplus? That stuff’s probably got a shelf life.