Amnesty International has called on the Obama administration to suspend military aid to Israel because of white phosphorus and other evidence found following the Gaza slaughter:
Amnesty researchers in Gaza found several weapon fragments after the
fighting. One came from a 500lb (227kg) Mark-82 fin guided bomb, which
had markings indicating parts were made by the US company Raytheon.
They also found fragments of US-made white phosphorus artillery shells,
marked M825 A1.
On 15 January, several white phosphorus shells
fired by the Israeli military hit the headquarters of the UN Relief and
Works Agency in Gaza City, destroying medicine, food and aid. One
fragment found at the scene had markings indicating it was made by the
Pine Bluff Arsenal, based in Arkansas, in October 1991.
The
human rights group said the Israeli military had used white phosphorus
in densely populated civilian areas, which it said was an
indiscriminate form of attack and a war crime. Its researchers found
white phosphorus still burning in residential areas days after the
ceasefire.
At the scene of an Israeli attack that killed three
Palestinian paramedics and a boy in Gaza City on 4 January, Amnesty
found fragments of an AGM114 Hellfire missile, made by Hellfire Systems
of Orlando, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. The missile
is often fired from Apache helicopters.
Amnesty said it also
found evidence of a new type of missile, apparently fired from unmanned
drones, which exploded into many pieces of shrapnel that were "tiny
sharp-edged metal cubes, each between 2 and 4mm square in size".
