UN’s nuclear agency urged to investigate Gaza for depleted uranium
The International Atomic Energy Agency must send monitors into Gaza to check whether Israel’s military has fired depleted uranium munitions during its war on the territory, says Palestine’s Ambassador to Austria Salah Abdel Shafi.
While depleted uranium ammunition is not considered a nuclear weapon, its emission of low levels of radiation has led the IAEA to warn of possible dangers of exposure.
#IAEA needs to send inspectors into Gaza
to check whether #Israel used #DU (depleted uranium) in the ammunition in their aggression; to
do thorough investigation on the soil, air; all this is the responsibility of @iaeaorg
Palestinian ambassador @SalahAbdelShafi tells @AJEnglish https://t.co/R9jG7RWtc5 pic.twitter.com/3DVC24abHP
— Osama Bin Javaid (@osamabinjavaid) June 9, 2024
The US used thousands of tons of DU in Iraq, so would make sense it's part of US ammunition supplied to Israel
Weaponised uranium and adverse health outcomes in Iraq: a systematic review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7903104/
Pot calling the kettle black
Israel army on claim 3 captives killed: ‘Just Hamas propaganda’
Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner denied that three Israeli captives were killed during the bloody raid on Saturday that freed four captives.
The comments come after the armed wing of Hamas said the three were killed during the incursion, including one US citizen.
“This is just Hamas propaganda, their attempt to try and create concern in Israel,” Lerner told the UK’s Sky News. “When we listen to what Hamas is saying, I say take it with a pinch of salt. Everything they say.”
The Saturday raid killed more than 274 Palestinians and wounded hundreds in the Nuseirat refugee camp, including more than 140 women, children and elderly.
A ‘complex war crime’
The Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, says three captives were killed, including a US citizen, in the Israeli raid in which four captives were freed.
It didn’t release the names of those killed, but a video released showed what appeared to be three bodies with censor bars over their faces. “Your captives will not be released unless our prisoners are freed,” it said.
The Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida wrote on the Telegram channel: “By committing horrific massacres, the enemy was able to free some of his prisoners. But at the same time, it killed some of them. The operation will pose a great danger [for] the enemy’s prisoners and will have a negative impact on their conditions.”
Obeida described the Israeli raid as a “complex war crime”.
Lie or not, does it matter with 274 dead. Hamas knows Palestinian lives are not worth anything to Israel nor the US. Problem for Hamas is, the lives of US/Israeli citizens are also not worth much. The 'rescue' was a PR stunt, like the last one. Not done out of care for the remaining hostages whose lives will only become more difficult now.
Nuseirat assault: ‘Houses destroyed with occupants inside’
Soon after the Israeli raid started at about 11am (08:00 GMT) in Nuseirat’s busy market area, bombs rained down and turned the neighbourhood into “smoke and flames”, said Muhannad Thabet, 35, a resident.
“People were screaming – young and old, women and men. Everyone wanted to flee the place, but the bombing was intense and anyone who moved was at risk of being killed because of the heavy bombardment and gunfire.
“Houses were destroyed with their occupants inside. There were also large numbers of displaced people and shops, stalls and cars were on fire because of the bombing.”
Israel sent in a special forces team of troops and Shin Bet operatives who simultaneously raided two buildings to extract the captives – Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41.
While Biden forgot about his (non existent) red lines
Battles rage as Israeli tanks advance further into Rafah
A column of tanks moved into two new districts in an apparent effort to complete the encirclement of the entire eastern side of Rafah, touching off clashes with dug-in Palestinian fighters, according to residents trapped in their homes.
Palestinian medics said an Israeli air strike on a house in Tal as-Sultan in western Rafah killed two people.
The Israeli military said troops of its 162nd division were raiding some districts of Rafah where they located “numerous additional terror tunnel shafts, mortars, and [other] weapons” belonging to Palestinian armed groups.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 37,084 Palestinians, the Health Ministry said, and thousands more dead are believed buried under the debris.
