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Human Rights Watch: IDF phosphorous bombs in Gaza violate int'l law
By Amira Hass, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: israel news, gaza, israel 

U.S. rights group Human Rights Watch this week charged Israel with illegal use of white phosphorous bombs in urban areas.

International law allows such weapons to be used in battlefields as a smokescreen but the material is considered dangerous in residential areas due to the severe burns it inflicts, as well as its incendiary quality.

Based on his observations last week, HRW military analyst Mark Garlasco determined that the IDF is using the material, although the army has not confirmed its use.
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In 2006 Israel acknowledged for the first time that it had attacked Hezbollah targets during the second Lebanon war with phosphorus shells. Until then Israel had maintained that it only used such bombs to mark targets or territory.

Phosphorus has been used by armies since World War I. During World War II and Vietnam the U.S. and British armies made extensive use of phosphorus. During recent decades the tendency has been to ban the use of phosphorus munitions against any target, civilian or military, because of the severity of the injuries that the substance causes
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  1.   US "rights" group on thin ice with phosphorus 05:20  |  Rose 13/01/09
  2.   Amira Hamas violates all journalistic principles and ethics 07:04  |  Genuine Tosefta 13/01/09
  3.   The IDF is not using Phosporus in Gaza 07:26  |  Colin Wright 13/01/09
  4.   What human rights? 08:35  |  Zen 13/01/09
  5.   Shooting rockets by Hamas is not illegal under int. law? 09:43  |  arthur 13/01/09
  6.   Lies, the traces of phosphorous ARE within legal limits. 10:08  |  Harvey 13/01/09
  7.   shoot the messenger 13:58  |  Murray 13/01/09
  8.   keep it up amira! 13:58  |  joe 13/01/09
  9.   Issue as much blatant lying 14:30  |  Stephen L 13/01/09
  10.   A lie, arthur 14:57  |  Murray 13/01/09
  11.   35 years 16:08  |  Sam Soul 13/01/09
  12.   Wow GT, you sounded positively ruffled... 17:32  |  BBSNews 13/01/09
  13.   Justifying the indefensible 17:43  |  Brendan Holleran 13/01/09
  14.   Brendan, you think this is not a war? 19:06  |  DavidAK 13/01/09
  15.   Brendan Holleran #13 ignoring the facts 19:15  |  Gee 13/01/09
  16.   Brendan, here is another claim like this! 19:33  |  Jacob 13/01/09
  17.   Photos of Willie Pete have appeared in Haaretz 23:39  |  Mark Lincoln 13/01/09
  18.   response to rose 08:03  |  owen weitz 14/01/09
  19.   rose 22:08  |  aijaz 14/01/09
  20.   HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATE ISRAEL`S RIGHTS 11:14  |  Petra 27/10/09
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