"Militaries officially use white phosphorus to obscure their operations on the ground by creating thick smoke. It has also been used as an incendiary weapon, though such use constitutes a war crime.
"In
Gaza, the Israeli military didn't just use white phosphorus in open
areas as a screen for its troops," said Fred Abrahams, senior
emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch and co-author of the
report.
"It fired white phosphorus repeatedly over densely populated areas, even when its troops weren't in the area and safer smoke shells were available. As a result, civilians needlessly suffered and died." [3]
During the 23 days of attack on Gaza, the UN Security Council, Amnesty International, International Red Cross, and global voices of protest rose up and demanded a ceasefire, but both houses of Congress overwhelmingly endorsed resolutions to support a continuation of Israel's so called "self defense" and its collective punishment upon Gaza.
Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton walked on coals poured out of righteous rage
in Morocco after her moronic praise for Prime Minister Netanyahu's
"reasonable compromise" in which he "proposed a moratorium on new
housing units in the West Bank, but would allow building or finishing
about 3,000 more units and would exclude East Jerusalem from any
building limits."
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