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| Israelis are using nerve gas against Palestinian |
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| Safiya |
| 02/17/01 at 18:36:49 |
| Assalamu'alaikum, Report: Israelis are using nerve gas against Palestinians Occupied Jerusalem: 15 February, 2001 - The Palestinian Authority has called on the international community to help ascertain the type of nerve gas which Israeli Occupation troops have been using against Palestinian protesters particularly in the Gaza Strip. The PA minister of health, Riadh al Za'anoun, said on Thursday the Palestinians were not able to establish the exact type of the Gas used and consequently couldn't administer the proper antidote on affected people. "We have established that the gas used against our people by the Israeli occupation army is not the standard tear gas used around the world to disperse demonstrators, it is a nerve agent, maybe phosgene or anther variety of nerve gas." Al Za'anoun said the gas was certainly fatal when used in enclosed areas, and caused a variety of symptoms not caused by normal tear gas. "It causes acute shortness of breath, disorientation, hallucination, fainting, vomiting with stains of blood, and nervous breakdown." According to Awni al Khatib, Prof. of Chemistry at the Hebron University, the gas used by the Israeli army is known chemically as "phosgene" (COCl-2) which he said was a serious nerve agent which can be very deadly. "This gas was used during World War I and proved very deadly," said al Khatib in an interview on Thursday. He added that it was highly possible that this gas will have long lasting effects on affected people and might cause cancer or infertility. The Israeli army denied that it was using nerve gas against Palestinians, calling Palestinian complaints to that effects "highly exaggerated." However, an Israeli army spokesman recognized on Wednesday that the type of gas used against Palestinians in Gaza "would never be used against Jewish demonstrators." When asked why, the Israeli spokesman said "no comment''. zakir. |
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