Looks like Israel is up to its indiscriminate killing spree again, this time using a weapon that is ILLEGAL to use in a civilian populated area.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN accuses Israel over phosphorus
The world has lost hope in Israel, and Israel has just dropped to the lowest point in the world’s eyes.
Israel Attacks Media - Literally | News From Antiwar.com
Two Journalists Wounded in Hit on Media Center
Posted January 15, 2009
With its continued refusal, after 20 days, to allow international journalists into the Gaza Strip to cover the ongoing war, the Israeli government is no stranger to being accused of attacks on freedom of the press. But earlier today, attacks on journalists’ ability to cover the war turned into an attack on journalists.
Just minutes after Israeli forces assured Reuters that a 16-story Gaza building used as a media center by correspondents for the international press was not a military target, it was targeted. Much as the United Nations did with its schools, Reuters provided the Israeli military with coordinates for the building to ensure that it wouldn’t be hit.
But hit it was, in a strike the Foreign Press Association called “unconscionable.” Two journalists were moderately wounded in the attack. As with every other attack, the Israeli military insisted that the location was targeted for being used “for terrorist purposes.” The military added that Hamas is “supported by Iran” and accused them of “deliberately and cynically” operating within civilian areas. Though firefights were reported in the area (bullets from which also went through the windows of an Associated Press office in a different, nearby building), there was no indication that any of it came from the building, either before or after the Israeli attack.
Patients Scramble to Flee Gaza City Hospital Set Ablaze by Israeli Attack | News From Antiwar.com
Medics Were Trapped in Burning Hospital as Fire Trucks Struggle to Put Out Fire
Posted January 15, 2009
There was utter panic in one Gaza City neighborhood this evening after an Israeli tank shell hit the crowded al-Quds hospital, setting it ablaze. The area was shelled for most of the day, and desperate patients wounded in the war struggled to get out of their beds and flee the latest Israeli attack.
The fire trapped roughly 40 medical personnel in the hospital, according to Israeli Physicians for Human Rights, and fire trucks at the scene struggled to contain the blaze. The fire in the medical area was reportedly brought under control, but the ability to put the fire out in the administration section was hampered by what officials at the scene described as a fire caused by a white phosphorus shell.
French doctor Regis Garrigue spoke at the Red Crescent operated hospital. “The Israelis are bombing and attacking all around the hospital. We can’t get out. There’s fire, and we’re trapped inside. The water has been cut off.”
There have been persistent reports since the invasion began of Israeli forces attacking ambulances and medical workers: the Israeli military had no comment on the latest attack.
Re: UN accuses Israel of white phosphorus
Where are the pro israeli supporters supporting this onslaught? :S
Re: UN accuses Israel of white phosphorus
I agree, let's see their take on this too. I will be damned if they come up with something positive about Isreal, even after reading this. This is too much, Israel has just crossed the limit. Israel is an even bigger problem than America right now.