18 October 2006

Life in the weapons lab

Is Israel using Gaza as a testing ground for new weapons? It seems that they may be. Doctors in Gaza's hospitals have reported that since July they have been seeing patients come in with strange and horrific injuries. The wounds lack the large shrapnel one would expect from artillery or bombs. According to Dr Jumma Saqa'a of Shifa Hospital

:"Bodies arrived severely fragmented, melted and disfigured. We found internal burning of organs, while externally there were minute pieces of shrapnel. When we opened many of the injured people we found dusting on their internal organs."

Some have postulated that the wounds could have come from a new weapon called "Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME)". Should this prove to be the case I, for one, would not be surprised. Israel knows that the world's attention is elsewhere and has take advantage of that to intensify operations, including those against civilians, in Gaza.


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