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IDF Confirms: Gaza Militants Fired Phosphorous Bombs At Israel
Haaretz ^ | 15 Sept 2010 | Haaretz & Reuters

Posted on 09/15/2010 10:50:13 AM PDT by edpc

Two of the nine mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel on Tuesday were actually phosphorous bombs, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed.

Militants in the coastal territory also fired two Qassam rockets into Israel, yielding an Israel Air Force strike in response that led to the death of one Palestinian working in a smuggling tunnel on the border with Egypt.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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During Operation Cast Lead, Israel was criticized for using "chemical weapons" when they deployed munitions containing white phosphorous.

Somehow, I doubt Gazan terrorists will be accused of the same.

1 posted on 09/15/2010 10:50:17 AM PDT by edpc
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To: edpc

In a just world the Gaza Strip would now be the Gaza Parking Lot.


2 posted on 09/15/2010 10:53:21 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

Israel should unleash hell in Gaza. Enough is enough. How much more are they going to put up with?


3 posted on 09/15/2010 10:55:47 AM PDT by RC2 (Remember who we are. "I am America")
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To: edpc

They are attacking the Jews that the DNC and Obama
want murdered (with US taxpayer money and arms)


4 posted on 09/15/2010 10:58:45 AM PDT by Diogenesis ('Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
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To: edpc

Willie Pete


5 posted on 09/15/2010 11:00:34 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
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To: edpc

“Willie Pete”. Burns at extreme temps for long duration. Flesh will not cool it. Nasty stuff.


6 posted on 09/15/2010 11:01:12 AM PDT by Broker (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV))
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To: edpc; Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

Daily prayers for Israel continue


7 posted on 09/15/2010 11:04:04 AM PDT by lonevoice (I can see November from Free Republic's porch!)
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To: edpc

Was it white phosphorus? White phosphorus mortars are used for smoke generation.


8 posted on 09/15/2010 11:13:49 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Was it white phosphorus? White phosphorus mortars are used for smoke generation.”

Among other things. It is extremely effective when mixed with HE in causing mass rank attacks to lose their vigor. Was very effective in Korea, and used against troops in Vietnam.


9 posted on 09/15/2010 11:22:48 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Based on the picture at the source, it would seem so. Either that, or the Gazans are trying to trick Catholics into thinking a new Pope has been elected.

As a previous poster noted, WP can be used in other ways. I am certain there will be a few "workplace accidents" when the locals attempt to make modifications to their stockpiles. Oh, well......

10 posted on 09/15/2010 11:29:44 AM PDT by edpc (It's Kräusened)
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To: edpc
Yeah. So if they didn't contain phosphorous it would have been okay. A thousand should die in Gaza for every bomb that lands in Israel, whether they contain phosphorous or not.

ML/NJ

11 posted on 09/15/2010 11:54:56 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: edpc
A couple of neutron bombs in Gaza would stop this waste of perfectly good phosphorus, as well as calm the non-indigenous population to acceptable levels of mischief.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

12 posted on 09/15/2010 12:00:49 PM PDT by The Comedian
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To: RC2; samtheman

The parking lot solution seems the best approach to me - “Git-R-Done”.


13 posted on 09/15/2010 12:13:46 PM PDT by mcshot (Who is the power behind the MSM that is trying to take-down our Country?)
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To: The Comedian
A couple of neutron bombs in Gaza would stop this waste of perfectly good phosphorus, as well as calm the non-indigenous population to acceptable levels of mischief.

Silly Comedian. Don't you know that the Israelis will have to endure 100 megaton blasts in Tel Aviv and Haifa before even thinking about anything like that?

14 posted on 09/15/2010 12:15:04 PM PDT by AngryJawa (Obama's Success is America's Failure)
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To: AngryJawa
Silly Comedian. Don't you know that the Israelis will have to endure 100 megaton blasts in Tel Aviv and Haifa before even thinking about anything like that?

You know, the best thing that could happen to Israel, and the absolute worst thing that could happen to their proximate Arab infestation, would be to draft me as PM of Israel for a day.

The fire. The blood. The terror.

And the next day, Israel and the rest of the planet would be at peace.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

15 posted on 09/15/2010 12:40:37 PM PDT by The Comedian
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To: The Comedian

“The Day of the Comedian”

I think that’s in Zephaniah or maybe Joel.


16 posted on 09/15/2010 3:57:25 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
Thanks edpc.
Two of the nine mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel on Tuesday were actually phosphorous bombs, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed. Militants in the coastal territory also fired two Qassam rockets into Israel, yielding an Israel Air Force strike in response that led to the death of one Palestinian working in a smuggling tunnel on the border with Egypt.

17 posted on 09/15/2010 4:09:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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I'm sure their intent was only illumination, to facilitate targeting a school with HE

18 posted on 09/15/2010 4:26:43 PM PDT by SJackson (In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
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To: Diogenesis

Amen.

Nothing to see here - just those persecuted Palestinians lobbing harmless fireworks to try to draw the world’s attention. If only Israel would disarm, then there would be peace in the Middle East. Honest to God, that’s what Obama told me. /s


19 posted on 09/15/2010 4:35:32 PM PDT by rockvillem
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To: Jewbacca
“The Day of the Comedian”

I think that’s in Zephaniah or maybe Joel.

It's in the apocrypha.

The Book of Completely Deserved Horrors 1:1

"And lo, the wicked nations continued in their wickedness,

and did not repent of their abominations and murder against Israel.

And the Lord ran out of patience, and sent to them a great punishment in the shape of a man.

A man who pointed and laughed at the pain of evil men,

And chuckled as he did slay them in their thousands,

And grinned as he strode upon their unmarked graves and over their unwept corpses.

And their agony was his set up, and their death was his punchline.

And they saw not his face, but knew he was near, as their men fell to the left and right,

And it came to pass that after the screams ended, and even the wailing was silent,

that there was no sound in lands of the abominable nations, save for the buzz of flies,

and the distant laughter of The Comedian."


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

20 posted on 09/16/2010 12:01:02 PM PDT by The Comedian
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