Israel drops 'depleted uranium bombs' inside Beirut: Official
Radioactive dust emitted by depleted uranium munitions has been linked to rises in cancer and congenital defects in babies following the US bombing of Iraq
On October 6, the head of the president of the Lebanese Association of Social Medicine said Israel has been bombing the southern suburbs of Beirut using banned bombs with uranium warheads and called for collecting samples from the bombed sites to send to the UN as part of an international investigation.
President of the Lebanese Association of Social Medicine Raif Reda called for “collecting samples from the bombing sites and sending reports to the United Nations so the world can witness the bloody, criminal history of the Zionist enemy,” according to statements reported by the National News Agency (NNA).
Warheads made with depleted uranium casings are designed to penetrate deep fortifications, causing significant destruction and releasing toxic gases. They are also radioactive and have been linked to massive increases in cancer rates in Iraq following the US wars on that country in 1991 and 2003.
Lebanese newspaper L'Orient Today reports that Israeli air forces may have used depleted uranium bombs when its air force dropped 80 one-ton (2,000lb) bombs on at least four residential buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 27 to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
The New York Times notes that a video released by the Israeli army showed that the warplanes that flew the mission to assassinate Nasrallah were each equipped with six US-made BLU-109 missiles.
L'Orient Today notes that according to a report from the US Naval Institute, the most common type of explosives inside these missiles are bombs classified as GBU-31.
“These guided munitions are known for their ability to penetrate heavily reinforced concrete or steel structures thanks to a casing made of depleted uranium (DU), used for its high density, which enhances the bombs' resistance upon ground impact,” the Lebanese newspaper added.
The Israeli air force has already been known to use these bombs in Gaza. A report submitted to the UN Human Rights Commission documented the drop of GBU-31, GBU-32, and GBU-39 bombs documented airstrikes by the Israeli air force carried out on residential buildings, a school, refugee camps, and a market between October 9 and December 2, 2023.
Depleted uranium munitions pose a risk to civilians years after a site is bombed because they release radioactive particles upon impact and contaminate the soil and surrounding environment.
It is well known that the US Air Force used depleted uranium warheads during both its wars in Iraq.
Researcher Souad al-Azzawi, an associate professor of environmental engineering at Canadian University Dubai and former director of the doctoral program in environmental engineering at the University of Baghdad, cites studies showing that children's leukemia cases increased by 60 percent between 1990 and 1997 and that birth defects tripled between 1990 and 1998 in Basra, Iraq.
The US Air Force bombed Basra in response to Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Al-Azzawi says that depleted uranium used during such conflicts is responsible for the rise in cancer and birth defects in the area.
Depleted uranium is one of the most widely discussed contaminants in relation to birth defects. The World Health Organization released a report in 2003 titled “Potential Impact of Conflict on Health in Iraq,” which suggested that depleted uranium might be related to reports of increased cancers, birth defects, reproductive health problems, and renal diseases in the Iraqi population since 2003.
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) reported that depleted uranium may be among the causes of a massive spike in birth defects among children in Falluja, which US forces bombed heavily during battles with insurgents in April and November 2004.
MERIP noted that the Falluja Hospital's birth defects Facebook page, where medical staff cataloged cases, revealed numerous different congenital anomalies. Babies in Falluja are regularly born with hydrocephaly, cleft palates, tumors, elongated heads, overgrown limbs, short limbs, and malformed ears, noses, and spines.
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nobody will ever forgive them.
nobody of sound mind is willing to run into their fake ww3.
they think people support them but purchased loyalty is worthless.
they are on their own just like the school bully.
Where is the UN and its currently despicable WHO, forming an intl. team of radiation experts and specialty physicians making a 'tour' in the inflicted areas, then exposing the results and perpetrators on a global scale after a ruthless and independent peer-review ??? ...
Oh, I forgot: inflicted populace is only Goy and Arab ...