Update from a Lebanon under unjustified Israeli war rage. July 25th, 2006 - 14th day of attack
Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)
Talk on Depleted Uranium Warheads used in Lebanon.
On July 24, 2006, Dr. Doug Rokke, former Director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium project wrote in an article that the delivery of at least 100 GBU 28 bunker busters bombs containing depleted uranium warheads by the United States to Israel for use against targets in Lebanon will result in additional radioactive and chemical toxic contamination with consequent adverse health and environmental effects throughout the middle east. He added that US and British officials have arrogantly refused to comply with their own regulations, orders, and directives that require United States Department of Defense officials to provide prompt and effective medical care to "all" exposed individuals. The use of uranium weapons is absolutely unacceptable, and a crime against humanity.
Is Israel Using Internationally Forbidden Weapons in its Aggression on
Lebanon?
Significant information and witnesses by doctors in various hospitals
receiving the Lebanese dead due to Israeli bombing indicate that Israel is using
internationally forbidden weapons in Lebanon. The director of Nabatiyeh National
Hospital in the South of Lebanon talked about "vacuum bombs, it vacuums the air
out of the body and stops the breathing and thus the heart stops operating”
(Suspected weapons are vacuum or thermobaric bombs. He also noted one death
case whose cause of death is still unknown (medically). A spokesman for the army
said on record that the Israelis are using "bombs with special fillings" that
could include internationally forbidden material. The director of Marjeyoun
national hospital in the south spoke about abnormal cases they treated: weird
burns that make the skin glued and almost impossible to treat. These are people
whose either arms or legs were hurt. Several hospitals in the south speak about
similar cases: burnt\ not burnt corpses, swallowed, no bleeding, and the
unbearable smell (Suspected weapon: White Phosphorus shell / incendiary agent).
The director of Najm hospital says he saw similar cases in previous Israeli
aggressions. Dr. Bashir Sham, member of "French Association of Cardiovascular
Surgeons", explains that the way the corps look when they reach the hospital,
especially those of the air strikes in Doueir and Rmayleih, is very abnormal."
One might think they were burnt, but their color is dark, they're inflated, and
they have a terrible smell". All this, and the hair is not burnt nor do the
bodies bleed. Sham says that only chemical poisonous substances "lead to instant
death without bleeding". Sham thinks that whatever "abnormal " substance causing
these features might penetrate through the skin, or another explanation would be
that the missiles contained toxic gas that stopped the proper functioning of the
nervous system (Suspected weapon is "directed energy weapons" or electromagnetic
(microwave) weapon called Death ray weapon / (see Bret Wagner report in
www.thecaliforniacenter.org), and led to blood clotting. However, these doubts
can't be proven, not even by an autopsy.
Currently there is no time that allows doing test on the remains. Moreover,
hospitals are forced to burn corpses due to lack of space in the morgues, so
maybe proves are being lost. A WHO representative is supposed to be handed
remains of corpses and tests results. Hospitals also wrote to both the
commissioner of the European Union for Foreign Affaires Javier Solana, and the
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. (This information is taken from
As-Safir daily Lebanese newspaper. You can help them investigate the kinds of
bombs being used by Israel. Please visit
http://www.assafir.com/iso/israeli-aggression/)
Call from Southern Town of Tyre
To whom it may concern all over the world,
In the name of self defense, in the name of democracy, in the name of the new
Middle East, Israel is committing massacres. Children, women and men were killed
and their bodies are still in the streets and under their home because the
Israeli army didn't allow the Red Cross to save them. Even the ambulances were
targeted by Israeli bombing.
In the name of defending the Israeli people, Israel is bombing all over Lebanon,
destroying its infrastructure.
It is a human call to all humanity to translate words into fact.
It time to stand up and defend the international human right declaration.
Abdel Mohsen Al-Husseini
Head of the Municipality of Tyre, South Lebanon
Oil slick on Beirut public beach; destruction we can rebuild but this is
outright environmental terrorism. (http://beirutupdate.blogspot.com/)
Tomorrow the International Conference in Rome for Middle East Crisis
The conference in Rome will bring together key players from the Middle East and
the international community that have been involved in rebuilding Lebanon after
its long civil war. It’s unrealistic to reach a cease-fire simply though calls
for a cease-fire; the necessary tools in order to get the parties to reach a
cessation of hostilities should be produced.
The UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, urged Israel to work with the
international community to reach a cease-fire, and said Syria and Iran, which
both support Hezbollah, also "have to be part of the solution." But he admitted
a quick end to the conflict will be difficult because Israel wants "to weaken or
degrade or disarm Hezbollah" and the group has said it is "prepared to continue
its actions indefinitely.
Talks and preparations for the cease fire include the handover of two Israeli
soldiers captured by Hezbollah on July 12 which triggered the fighting, an
expanded peacekeeping force on the Lebanese side of the U.N.-drawn boundary with
Israel known as the Blue Line to stabilize the situation, and Lebanese and
Israeli respect for the line. The Lebanese government must also extend its
control over southern Lebanon, which is now largely in the hands of Hezbollah,
and disarm the group, as called for in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559,
Annan said. (AP)
Meanwhile, international relief organizations are waiting for the outcomes
of the meeting in Rome to move on their support campaigns in Lebanon. Public
concern is very high and a big demonstration in London last week. A key issue
so far for these organizations is the lack of access and lack of strong ground
presence in Lebanon. Main expectations out of Rome are deploying a multinational
force and assuring access for humanitarian support.
Several agencies have launched their own appeals for funding. Meanwhile, the
major agencies have written to the British Prime Minister and put out statements
formally condemning the Israeli action and tomorrow’s newspapers will carry a
letter from several of them restating their condemnation.
Activities by Lebanese Civil Society Groups against the Israeli Aggression:
Three main activities are planned by Lebanese civil society and foreign
activists in Lebanon (11 am on Wednesday July 26th 2006)
- The Lebanese Women’s Council is calling for a sit-in in front of the
United Nations headquarters.
- A coalition of civil society organizations will meet at the Martyr’s
Square in a staging entitled “American Tax Dollars at Work” whereby the
protestors will lay on the ground signifying death and will be surrounded by
Israeli and American missiles showing that the aggression is signed by both
Israel and the USA.
- Foreigners living in Lebanon, and refusing to leave the country due to the
Israeli attacks on it, are calling for a demonstration in front of UN house.
This
update was prepared by the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), information was
collected from various news agencies, but mostly from blogs created by civil
society groups and individual activists. For more information please visit:
www.annd.org, email:
annd@annd.org, phone: 961-1-319366, fax: 961-1-815636.
ANND is Social Watch focal point in Lebanon.
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