Is that a cluster bomb, then?

[derf]

ADDED. it really is time that the UN pulled it's finger out over Israel.

 

[tangentlama]

The worrying part about whether the ceasefire in Gaza can hold together will be whether the international community can stop the flow of arms to the terrorists. Because Israel's getting their planes and tanks and missiles from somewhere and until this supply is cut off there's every chance it could start up again.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...-the-israeli-governments-excuses-1452234.html

 

[Bernie Gunther]

The disregard for life from these terrorists and their supporters is shocking. For example Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, wrote that the purpose of the Israeli attack must be to "inflict a heavy death toll and heavy pain on the Gaza population".

Replace "Gaza" with "western", and that could have been written by al-Qa'ida. Maybe this is the problem: the Israelis are writing their policies by downloading statements from an Islamic Jihad website and just changing the place names.

same source

 

[Wolveryeti]

If Israel has actually admitted it used illegal munitions on a civilian population then someone has to pay for it.
Trouble is with Israel being the bastards that they are it will either be a low ranking officer or the will be unable to find out who did it.

Israel isn't a signatory to the convention that bans phosphorous and cluster bombs.

 

[Wilson]

Nafiz Abu Shabaan, head of the burns unit at Shifa hospital and the most senior burns surgeon in Gaza, said 60 to 70 patients had died in his unit during the war from severe burns that were unlike any injury he had previously seen.
........

He described one patient, a three-year-old girl, who was sent for a scan because of a head wound: "After about two hours she came back, we opened the wound, and smoke came out from the wound," he said. Surgeons used forceps to pull out a substance from the wound that was "like dense cotton and it started to burn," he said. "The piece continued to burn until it disappeared." The child, who was from Atatra, in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza, died.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/21/gaza-phosphorus-israel