- NABLUS (IslamOnline.net)
- Israeli occupation forces are using a brand new chemically contaminated
ammunitions to finish off Palestinian resistance fighters, a Palestinian
doctor unveiled.
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- "The Israeli forces use chemical-contaminated ammo,
which makes the skin of the victim fall once touched," Dr. Mohamed
El-Hashim, of the Health Department in the West Bank town of Qalqiliya,
told IslamOnline.net.
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- The Palestinian doctor cited Israeli-killed Mazen Yassin
was the first case in point.
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- The 45-year-old leader of the Hamas military wing in
Qalqiliya was shot by Israeli occupation forces while walking down one
of the city's streets on May 20.
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- The Israeli soldiers fired one bullet at him, left him
bleeding in the street and prevented civilians and ambulances from approaching
him.
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- Two hours later, after using a Palestinian civilian to
make sure he breathed his last, the Israeli soldiers removed the body,
which was later handed to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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- "A white-colored substance appeared on the lips
of the deceased, an unprecedented thing I've never seen before," said
Al-Hashim, who examined the body.
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- He said that Yassin was shot in the pelvis, an injury
which he ruled could not lead to his death, noting that he did not even
loose much blood.
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- "He could not die simply because of being hit in
the pelvis, a bony funnel-shaped cavity which causes no intensive bleeding,"
averred the doctor.
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- "I have been examining dead bodies since 1987, and
I have never seen this before. The skin was falling out upon touching any
part of the body."
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- "The odds is that he was hit by a bullet contaminated
with a chemical material that gradually killed him or that he was injected
by other poisonous substance the Israelis used for the first time."
said Al-Hashim.
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- One Bullet
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- Eyewitnesses said Yassin fell on the ground upon being
shot one bullet by the Israeli occupation soldiers, who denied access to
him for full two hours.
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- "He was crying of pain. The soldiers forced me to
approach and probe the body [for fear he was carrying explosives],"
Saed Abdel-Hafez told IOL.
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- "He was injured in the pelvis. I told them he was
dead. The soldiers then watched me making sure the body is not strapped
with explosives."
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- Abdel-Hafiz said the soldiers then took the body on an
army ambulance to the outside of the city.
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- New Methods
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- Palestinians complain that Israeli forces even use police
dogs or sharp tools to mutilate bodies of Palestinians.
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- On January 1, 2003, brothers Mohamed and Tarek Dawas,
14 and 15 respectively, were killed while trying to storm into Dugit settlement
in northern Gaza Strip.
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- Medical sources said the bodies were riddled with knife
cuts, and one brain was dashed out when the bodies were retrieved.
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- Israel has come under heavy fire for using internationally-prohibited
weapons to kill Palestinians, and for using Palestinians to test drugs
and poisonous medicines produced by its companies.
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- The Palestinian Information Center said in April that
Israel used internationally-banned arms to crush the Palestinian Intifada,
adding the "army resorts to deadly force to disperse the protestors
with means only used in a showdown with other armies".
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- On November 19, an Arab Israeli lawmaker accused the
Israeli occupation forces of using a "banned weapon" in a deadly
raid in the Gaza Strip, which killed 12 people and wounded 70 others.
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- Opposition MP Ahmad Al-Tibi said the army had used "secret
banned weapon " in the raid and accused it of employing military censorship
to stop the publication of details related to the issue.
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- Citing the appearance of strange infections among Palestinians,
a Palestinian security member said in April that Israel may have used chemical
weapons against the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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