HUMAN Rights Watch has sounded alarm: Israel is using prohibited “white phosphorus” in the Gaza Strip and also in Lebanon, thereby endangering scores of innocent lives.
Ideally, the UN Security Council should speak with one voice to condemn such excesses. However, a myriad of competing sectarian geopolitical interests has relegated the plight of the Palestinian people to the back seat.
Innocent civilians trapped under the fatal white phosphorus in Lebanon are just as doomed as their neighbours in Palestine’s Gaza Strip.
White phosphorus can cause “bone-deep burn, resulting in death or lifelong injuries. It can also be used “to generate smokescreens, mark targets and incinerate enemy targets”.
Israel used white phosphorus extensively during its bombardment of
