Israeli crimes' against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip-جنایت اسرائیل در نوار غزه
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Italian Scholar Terms Gaza Genocide "Holocaust" TEHRAN (FNA)- An Italian Islamic scholar said that Israel's bloody crimes and genocide in Gaza is in fact a Holocaust in the third millennium. |
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The Italian intellectual further said, "Blood of innocent Palestinians spilled by the Zionist regime keeps the world aware of Israeli barbarism and makes the Palestinian Intifada victorious."
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Israeli soldiers prepare their tanks on the Israeli side of Gaza border before rolling into the coastal sliver. Medics say the army might be testing new weapons in the densely-populated Gaza Strip. |
After working for 10 days at the Shifa Hospital in the war-torn Palestinian territory, Dr. Mads Gilbert, a member of a Norwegian triage medical team in Gaza, blasted Israel for conducting experimental military work in the impoverished strip.
"There's a very strong suspicion I think that Gaza is now being used as a test laboratory for new weapons," Gilbert told reporters at Oslo's Gardermoen airport upon his return home on Monday.
Dr. Gilbert said the kinds of injuries he and his colleague Erik Fosse had seen during their ten-day aid work in Gaza had proven that Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME) was being used in the embattled territory.
DIME, which is an experimental kind of explosive, is believed to have strong biological effects in those who are hit by the "low lethality" weapons.
Survivors close to the lethal range may have their limbs amputated as their soft tissues and bones are shredded to pieces. The victims may also subsequently contract cancer from the micro-shrapnel embedded in their body tissue within just four to six months.
"This is a new generation of very powerful small explosives that detonates with an extreme power and dissipates its power within a range of five to 10 meters (16-98 feet)," said Gilbert.
"We have not seen the casualties affected directly by the bomb because they are normally torn to pieces and do not survive, but we have seen a number of very brutal amputations... without shrapnel injuries which we strongly suspect must have been caused by the DIME weapons," he added.
The weapon "causes the tissue to be torn from the flesh. It looks very different (from a shrapnel injury). I have seen and treated a lot of different injuries for the last 30 years in different war zones, and this looks completely different," said Fosse, 58.
"If you are in the immediate (vicinity of) a DIME weapon, it's like your legs get torn off. It's an enormous pressure wave and there is no shrapnel," he explained.
Israel had also used the weapon in the 2006 war with Lebanon and previously in Gaza.
"We are not soft-skinned when it comes to war injuries, but these amputations are really extremely nasty and for many of the patients not survivable," he added.
Following reports on the use of suspected chemical weapons in Gaza, the United Nations Human Rights Council decided to dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations committed in the territory.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Tuesday that "Accountability must be ensured for violations of international law," suggesting that the Council consider a mission to assess violations committed by both sides in the conflict.
The latest casualty figures according to Health officials have topped 940 since the operation began on 27 December, while some 4,400 others have been wounded.
Senior United Nations officials have expressed grave concern about reports that over 40 per cent of the Palestinians killed in the Israeli offensive, and almost half of the wounded, are women and children.
The new report comes on top of earlier reports which revealed the Israeli military had used controversial white phosphorus shells on Gazans.
The Times said on Thursday that it had identified stockpiles of M825A1, a US-made White Phosphorus munition, from high-resolution pictures taken from Israeli artillery units on the Gaza border.
A phenomenon characteristic of the chemical -- also known by the military as WP or Willie Pete is that it can burn through flesh to the bone and leave bodies "entirely shriveled with black-green skin."
Earlier last week, Gilbert's team, told Press TV that medics had found depleted uraniumin some Gaza residents.
The reports of profound human sufferings come as Israel continues to reject the fact that it has imposed a humanitarian crisis among the battle-hardened 1.5 million population of Gaza.
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UNICEF: Over 300 children killed in Gaza crisis
More than 300 children have been killed so far and over 1,500 wounded since the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, a statement by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday. UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman said in the statement that "each day more children are being hurt, their small bodies wounded, their young lives shattered," and "this is tragic. This is unacceptable
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UN: Gaza blockade a siege in full fury | |
A UN special investigator on human rights says Israel's blockade of Gaza Strip is a massive violation of international humanitarian law. |
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The Hamas Prime Minister has criticized the international community for 'idly watching the Israeli crimes' against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Ismail Haniyah called on world leaders to put an end to 'Israel's crimes' committed against people in the coastal region.
Israel carries out regular attacks on the territory and it has imposed a crippling economic blockade against almost 1.5 million people in Gaza. It has sealed off all border crossings with the Gaza Strip since last month.
The blockade led to the lack of fuel for the sole power plant of the populated territory, which could result in a complete blackout.
Foreign Minister and leader of the ruling Kadima Party Tzipi Livni said earlier that Tel Aviv should act "militarily, economically and politically" to weaken Hamas in the region. She said the Israeli government should take any necessary step, including military action to topple the Hamas government.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak has also said that the military is waiting for the right moment to act against Hamas in Gaza. He will hand over a paper to the cabinet on Sunday, presenting possible options against the territory. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=78102§ionid=351020202
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