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Originally Posted by _Opi_
Is the Isreali army using new chemical weapons in Gaza?
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riiiiiight.... with the scrutiny that Israel's assault is under, and the many news groups out there - only the Palestinian News Network manages to scoop this story?
Anyways as to this alleged "weapon" being used - I also call BS on it. Sorry but the only thing capable of causing burns from the "inside out" and "distorting tissue" would be something along the lines of a microwave or high burst radiation (to have an immediate effect)... and last I checked microwaves don't come in bomb form, and high intensity/burst radiation would immediately show on an x-ray...
For shame _Opi_ to fall for such amatuerish and sloppy propaganda obviously aimed at the already convinced...
Anyways on to your other article - while they cite the Geneva Convention which follows:
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No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
Pillage is prohibited.
Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited.
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They also fail to point out that it is specific in it's application of when this applies; ie. against an occupied civilian population, or attacks specifically directed at terror or intimidation with no strategic/tactical military application... and so far Israel hasn't violated this as far as I can see from news sources.
If they are refering to the broader application under against the collective punishment of enemy civilian populations in times of conflict under 3rd Protocol (1977) then it doesn't matter as none of the combatants (or even possible combatants in the Middle East) have signed onto that protocol.... in fact very few countries have (ie. the UK and US haven't)