Doctors See Evidence of DIME [Dense Inert Metal Explosives] in Addtion to White Phosphorus
Jan 20, 2009
Egyptian doctors returned from the Gaza Strip said at a conference held yesterday by the Arab Doctors Union in Cairo that the bodies of the dead and wounded they have seen indicate the use by Israel of a variety of weapons banned internationally, including white phosphorus and so-called DIME (Dense Inert Metal Explosives), and they referred to other cases of distortions and disfigurations that they could not explain, calling the overall conditions of the bodies the ugliest they had seen in their medical careers. They called on the Union of Arab Journalists and international journalist associations to prepare a thorough report gathering together all evidence of the use of banned weapons.
(The report I have seen on this is in the Qatari paper AlArab, (today Monday Jan 19) which was praised by the doctors for a report it published the day before (which I haven't seen) including pictures, witness statements and documents, calling it an important collection of evidence).
Dr Ahmed Abdulaziz, a well-known Egyptian professor of surgery, said: We saw bodies that had been completely blackened. And we received body parts that we did not know who they belonged to; skulls that were empty; bodies whose limbs had been completely severed which is an indication of the use of DIME weapons. He called for a trial of the perpetrators of this in an international court. This was a slaughter by any measure, and the aim was not [just] to kill the people but to disfigure them.
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