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Destroyed houses in Khiam, a town near the Lebanese-Israeli border, that was hit by Israeli air strikes on Friday June 21, seen from the Lebanese town of Marjayoun, Lebanon, Saturday, June 22, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla)
June 27, 2024, 6:18 pm
Israel strikes reportedly creating 5-kilometer ‘dead zone’ in southern Lebanon
Financial Times analysis of satellite imagery shows extensive destruction of structures, but IDF says it is only targeting Hezbollah, which admits to using civilian homes
By ToI Staff
Illustrative A shell explodes over a house in al-Bustan, a Lebanese village along the border with Israel, on October 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
June 5, 2024, 11:55 am
Rights group: Israel using white phosphorus on residential buildings in Lebanon
Human Rights Watch says no evidence of burn injuries but claims civilians have breathing troubles; Israel says substance used only as a smokescreen and not to target civilians
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Children play with a flaming lump, allegedly containing white phosphorus, on a street in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza strip, January 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
November 9, 2020, 4:05 pm
Human toll of incendiary weapons documented in new report
Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School call for closing of loopholes in international law allowing countries, including Israel, to use white phosphorus
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Smoke billows from the eastern city of Deir Ezzor during an operation by Syrian government forces against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on November 2, 2017. (AFP/Stringer)
September 9, 2018, 11:51 pm
Moscow accuses US of using white phosphorous in Syria
Russian general claims weekend bombings targeting area controlled by Islamic State resulted in ‘fierce fires’
By AFP
This photo taken on May 16, 2017 shows House Majority Whip. Steve Scalise (R-LA)as he speaks to the media in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / MARK WILSON)
June 14, 2017, 2:20 pm
Wounded US congressman ‘critical’ after surgery – hospital
Bernie Sanders condemns ‘despicable’ Virginia shooter he says volunteered on his campaign; London apartment building fire death toll rises to 12
By ToI Staff
A screen capture from a video alleging to show the use of white phosphorous in Raqqa, uploaded on June 8, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)
June 14, 2017, 2:19 pm
Rights group criticizes use of white phosphorus against Islamic State
US declines to comment on operational use of smoke and illumination artillery shells in Syria, says it acts in accordance with laws of warfare
By AP
Workers are seen at the Shalon gas mask factory in Kiryat Gat, Israel, in August 2013 (photo credit: AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
September 17, 2013, 1:13 am
Syria deal shines light on Israeli capabilities
With a US-Russia brokered agreement to eliminate Assad’s chemical weapons on the table, some say it’s Israel’s turn to come clean
By Josef Federman
A Syrian man who suffered an alleged chemical attack receives treatment at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, in March. (photo credit: AP/SANA)
March 25, 2013, 3:05 am
Assad fires chemical weapons at rebels, opposition says
Syrian forces reportedly use ‘phosphorous’ near Damascus, killing two and injuring 23
By Yoel Goldman
Gerald M. Steinberg
June 25, 2012, 2:29 pm
Gerald M. Steinberg
A smokescreen of incompetence at HRW
Human Rights Watch’s call Israel and the US out over the use of white phosphorous, while ignoring the context of terrorism and asymmetric warfare
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