Moblog Journals Israel War Crime at Gaza UN School 17 January

by con10t | January 25, 2009 at 05:58 am

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Direct first-hand investigative visits to the UN school in Gaza by UN officials including its Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon as well as human rights watch workers have given clear evidence of the immediate need to investigate and prosecute Israel for war crimes - terrorizing, murdering, burning, blinding and maiming Gazan school children, staff and families with Israel's atrocious decision to mobilize and use a well-known and torturous banned weapon, white phosphorus, in highly populated urban war zones, not to mention its deployment against little school children.

Photojournalists have indisputable visual evidence of Israeli war crime, [guardian UK]. A video moblogger [BBC] captured the Israeli strike on the Gaza UN school 17 January 2009.

'Phosphorus shells' hit Gaza UN school [guardian.co.uk, 21 January 2009]
Israeli strike on school filmed [BBC, 22 January 2009]:

Mobile phone footage from Gaza shows the moment on 17 January when a UN school in Beit Lahiya was hit by shellfire on the last day of Israel's three-week offensive.

The burning lumps are consistent with the incendiary device white phosphorus (WP) - which is banned from use within areas of civilian concentration under international weapons agreements."