MORE ON: TARGETTING AMBULANCES
See the top of the ambulance at the 3 minute mark of UK - ITV report
Red Cross workers angry at violation of humanitarian law AP
Tyre, Lebanon Amateur video provided by an ambulance worker confirmed Deebe's account of damage to the ambulances, showing one large hole and several smaller ones in the roof of one ambulance and a very large hole in the roof of the second ambulance. Both vehicles were destroyed. 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.
MORE ON: CHEMICAL WEAPONS:
Red Cross workers angry at violation of humanitarian law AP
Tyre, Lebanon - Jawad Najem, a surgeon at the hospital, says patients admitted on Sunday were burn cases that resulted from phosphorus incendiary weapons. Najem said he had also treated a 14-year-old boy, Mahmoud Sarour, for phosphorus burns to his face. His 8-month-old sister, Maryam, also suffered similar burns to her neck and hands when an Israeli rocket hit her family's car just 1km from the hospital.
LEBANON: Israel defends its weapons REUTERS
Protocol III of the Geneva Conventions, prohibits and restricts the use of incendiary weapons on civilian populations.
FORMER UN-LEBANON SPOKESMAN: "Israel has always used them [phosphorous bombs]. I've seen the victims' burns in the hospital of Tyre, and they almost certainly have been caused by phosphorous bombs," he told IRIN," said Timor Goksel, a former spokesman of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) who served for over 20 years in southern Lebanon.
BELGIAN DOCTOR: "Normally, people killed or injured by a bomb explosion or in a car accident show traces of burns or blood. But these bodies showed neither. The skin was completely black, while the muscle underneath was intact," said a Belgian doctor of Lebanese descent, Bachir Cham, heads the Assairane Hospital in the southern city of Sidon. Cham, a heart and vascular specialist who taught at universities in Brussels and Paris, took 24 skin samples from the bodies and sent them to the World Health Organization in Geneva. He also took photos.
HRW DIRECTOR: The emergencies' director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Peter Boukhaert, who is currently in Lebanon, said HRW researchers in Israel had been able to confirm Israel's use of phosphorus bombs along the border with Lebanon.
Lebanon probes weapons used in Israel bombing UK SCOTSMAN
Killed by Israeli air raids, the Lebanese dead are charred in a way local doctors, who have lived through years of civil war and Israeli occupation, say they have not seen before. Bachir Cham said the bodies of some victims were all black but their hair and skin is intact so they are not really burnt. It is something else. If you burnt someone with petrol their hair would burn and their skin would burn down to the bone. The Israelis are 100 percent using chemical weapons." Television footage shows some bodies, such as those of 20 civilians killed when an Israeli missile hit the van in which they were fleeing the border village of Marwaheen, blackened in the way Cham describes. No one knows what killed them. "We are seeing abnormal burns, different from wars we've seen in the past. The corpses of these victims are shrinking to half their normal size. You think it is the corpse of a child at first but it turns out to be a grown man," said Raed Salman Zeinedine, director of TyreGovernmentHospital.
Israel 'using chemical weapons': doctors Sydney Morning Herald
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NOW ADD: CLUSTER BOMBING
Human Rights Watch: Israel Dropping Cluster Bombs on Lebanese
MY ORIGINAL POSTING ON THIS MATTER: FORBES: Israel Using Chemical Weapons -and- Targetting Ambulances
BACKGROUND: ISRAEL: USING NEW CHEMICAL AMMUNITIONS