Evidence is mounting that Israel used 'new' weapons such as Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME) in Gaza
The DIME bomb causes major injuries to the lower part of the body. Eyewitnesses say Israel fired the weapons from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). On impact with the ground the bomb creates an intense explosion with a massive pressure wave across a relatively small area.
It also produces a vapour made up of tiny particles of tungsten alloy. Injuries treated by Norwegian surgeon Erik Fosse were characterised by severe injuries to the lower body, as in the case of the 18-year-old amputee, Mona, in the video below. She had a leg injury that looked as if it had been sliced off with a knife.
Also as a result of breathing in the tungsten vapour victims suffer from extensive internal bleeding and organ failure. And unfortunately the legacy of the use of these bombs is unlikely to end there. Studies in the US on mice show they quickly develop muscular cancers after ingesting the tungsten alloy vapour.
The Israeli attack at Christmas meant that Fosse was one of the few foreign surgeons in the strip during the three weeks of massacres. He believes its timing was not by accident on the Israeli's part - it was deliberately planned that way so that there would be as few foreign nationals as possible to bear witness to the Israeli military's barbarity as possible. Of course Palestinian doctors and medics have been reporting the unusual injuries from these and other weapons for some time, but the Israelis presumably calculated 'who gives a damn what Palestinians think'.
Medical Aid for Palestinians says there are at least 500 people who are now amputees as a result of Israel's war against the people of Gaza.
A day at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza January 6 2009
From The Times
The DIME bomb causes major injuries to the lower part of the body. Eyewitnesses say Israel fired the weapons from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). On impact with the ground the bomb creates an intense explosion with a massive pressure wave across a relatively small area.
It also produces a vapour made up of tiny particles of tungsten alloy. Injuries treated by Norwegian surgeon Erik Fosse were characterised by severe injuries to the lower body, as in the case of the 18-year-old amputee, Mona, in the video below. She had a leg injury that looked as if it had been sliced off with a knife.
Also as a result of breathing in the tungsten vapour victims suffer from extensive internal bleeding and organ failure. And unfortunately the legacy of the use of these bombs is unlikely to end there. Studies in the US on mice show they quickly develop muscular cancers after ingesting the tungsten alloy vapour. The Israeli attack at Christmas meant that Fosse was one of the few foreign surgeons in the strip during the three weeks of massacres. He believes its timing was not by accident on the Israeli's part - it was deliberately planned that way so that there would be as few foreign nationals as possible to bear witness to the Israeli military's barbarity as possible. Of course Palestinian doctors and medics have been reporting the unusual injuries from these and other weapons for some time, but the Israelis presumably calculated 'who gives a damn what Palestinians think'.
Medical Aid for Palestinians says there are at least 500 people who are now amputees as a result of Israel's war against the people of Gaza.
A day at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza January 6 2009
From The Times
‘We’re wading in death, blood and amputees. Pass it on – shout it out’
“We are wading in death, blood, and amputees. Many children. A pregnant woman. I have never experienced anything so terrible. Now we hear tanks. Pass it on, send it around, shout it out. Anything. DO SOMETHING! DO MORE! We are living in a history book now, all of us.” It was signed Mads Gilbert, one of two Norwegian doctors toiling relentlessly alongside exhausted Palestinian medics. more
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