Charlie Don't Surf

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Use of white phosphorus in the Gaza attack and elsewhere









Above: Fallujah, Iraq, 2004.



Left: Lebanon, 2006


Above: Burn victim in Tyre, Lebanon, 2006



















Above photo: from the Vietnam War. Note the airburst pattern


Above: Gaza









Above: Phosphorus burn victim at Gaza's Nasser Hospital

Below: Gaza
















Above: Gaza. Note the distinctive airburst


(undated photo)











Gaza











above photo: Gaza. You can tell this is a real "pinpoint" weapon.




Left: Shelling of the UN school in Beit Lahiya, Gaza