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07/01/2011 06:30:00 AM GMT
A Palestinian police officer says Israeli army dropped more than 3,000 tons of munitions containing incendiary materials on the Gaza Strip during its three-week onslaught against the besieged enclave.
Director of the police explosives engineering department in Gaza, Major Tahseen Saad, said on Tuesday that during the Gaza war Tel Aviv tested most of the munitions it had stored in its arsenals, the Palestinian Information Center reported.
He added that bombs and shells of different size and weight were employed to target civilians and vehicles. The missiles contained internationally-banned substances such as white phosphorus, tungsten and depleted uranium which can increase rates of cancer and birth defects.
More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the three week Israeli land, sea and air offensive in the impoverished coastal sliver. The offensive also inflicted $ 1.6 billion damage on the Gazan economy.
A United Nations inquiry led by the former South African Judge Richard Goldstone detailed what investigators called Israeli actions "amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity," during Israel's offensive against the Gaza Strip.
The 575-page report by Goldstone and three other investigators details seven incidents in which Palestinian civilians were shot while leaving their homes, trying to run for safety or waving white flags. The report says Israel targeted a mosque at prayer time, killing 15 people, and shelled a Gaza City house where soldiers had forced Palestinian civilians to assemble. These attacks constituted war crimes, the report says.
The probe also found that Israel had violated international humanitarian law in several ways. Dozens of Palestinian policemen were killed at the start of the Gaza onslaught when Israeli forces bombed their stations. The security forces were not involved in the hostilities and should have been treated as civilians. Palestinians were used as human shields and forced to walk ahead of Israeli soldiers searching civilian neighborhoods. Israeli authorities, meanwhile, have branded the investigation as “neither independent nor professional, but a collection of baseless claims brought by Hamas to members” of the UN fact-finding mission.
Tel Aviv is worried that charges could be lodged against politicians and army officers for war crimes committed during Israel's 22-day offensive against the blockaded Gaza Strip. Top officials who would be in the judicial cross-hairs could include former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni as well as current Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Source.
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