White phosphorus, ambulance bombings enrage Red Cross workers

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Jawad Najem, a surgeon at the hospital, says patients admitted on Sunday were burn cases that resulted from phosphorus incendiary weapons.

The Geneva Conventions ban using white phosphorous as an incendiary weapon against civilian populations and in air attacks against military forces in civilian areas. The Israeli military says its use of weapons "conforms with international law".

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The Sarours were taken by taxi to the Tyre port because the Lebanese Red Cross had suspended operations outside the city proper because Israeli jets on Sunday blasted two ambulances with rockets, said Ali Deebe, a Red Cross spokesperson in Tyre.

"One of the rockets hit right in the middle of the big red cross that was painted on top of the ambulance. This is a clear violation of humanitarian law, of international law," he said.

http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3355312

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. According to some on DU those were all terrorist taxis

and were fair game.

[babylonsister]

2. Huh? I missed that whole story. nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. It's been going on all week. They seem to have specifically targeted

Ambulances. Unfortunately in each case the ambulance has been legitimate & cruel murders have occurred.

[TomInTib]

7. Here is a bit of it

[KoKo]

15. Even CNN did a little snip on it with Blitzer......n/t

[redacted]

3. Who, and how do they know that?

"Some people say" is the most frequently used phrase on Fox news. Who said that?

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. The quickly vanishing cadre of well meaning Israel apologists

that were quite vocal at the outset of this thing. They are subdued as of late.

[TomClash]

13. Many have left DU

and gone to other more Pro-Israeli sites.

[Selatius]

4. The US gov't used White Phosphorus on Fallujah

The code name for the missions was "shake and bake" operations.

[TomInTib]

6. Here's yer terrist ambulance

[Selatius]

8. Isn't the cross visible even using infrared sensors?

The white surface would be a different temperature under the sun than the red surface, no?

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. The assumption is that it is loaded with terrorists.

Or something.

[KoKo]

16. Message: In a War Zone don't use "traditional/accepted" symbols for

RELIEF and EMERGENCY....or PEACE...because ANYTHING could be FILLED WITH TERRAISTS.

..this message has been provided to you from USA PROPAGANDA NETWORK by George Bush/Dick Cheney/your MSM and the NeoCons.

[TomInTib]

11. Yep. Dead solid perfect.

A crime by any definition.

The story that accompanied that pic told how the rocket ripped the guy's leg right off and the next rocket hit the Ambulance following the one in the picture.

Shalom

[DanCa]

12. Please lord let it stop.

Cmon on big guy you owe me one cause the chimp signed that damn veto.
Please let this violence end now.

[redacted]

14. . .

[AngryOldDem]

17. Has this phosphorous angle been played up at all in the mainstream media?

[Bretttido]

18. Destroy anything that could contain militants first, ask questions later!

:sarcasm: