Why do Gaza people lie about Israeli soldiers killing the women and children plus depleted uranium?
Welcome to USA asked:
(AP) – Doctors from Norway working inside Gaza, have found traces of it on the bodies of Gaza residents. What gives Israel the right to use such weapons to kill people? Look it up, I am very surprised. What do you all think of this? Is this why Israel is blocking reporters?
(AP) – Doctors from Norway working inside Gaza, have found traces of it on the bodies of Gaza residents. What gives Israel the right to use such weapons to kill people? Look it up, I am very surprised. What do you all think of this? Is this why Israel is blocking reporters?
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June 21st, 2009 at 9:52 am
I would want to hear more details. ‘Traces’ of uranium can be found in anybody and anything.
Besides, you have to remember that there have been a lot of claims made by Hamas and thier supporters that have been found to have been fabricated.
I suggest that you wait a bit and see if the claim can be independently confirmed.
BTW – Israel did not ‘block’ reporters. Instead they required any embedded reporters to follow certian security guidelines (similar to those that are agreed to by reporters embedded with our own troops).
The biggest rule that caused the reporters to refuse to accompany Israeli troops was the rul about no live broadcasts of ongoing operations (to prevent the enemy from finding out).
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June 24th, 2009 at 4:55 am
The use of Depleted Uranium in munitions is currently one of the most grossly misunderstood military technologies. DU is used only in high velocity anti-armor rounds called Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APFSDS). It is very expensive and quite hopeless against any other kind of target like a building or people. In other words, it only works against TANKS. In IDF service APFSDS rounds would only be fired from the 120mm main guns of Merkava and Sabra main battle tanks and since the Israeli’s have no tanks or other heavily armored targets to shoot at in Gaza the likelyhood that they used such ammunition is effectively nil. Nobody shoots APFSDS out of a main tank gun to kill people or blow up buildings.
Nobody.
The only tank main gun rounds likely to have been used in Gaza were High Explosive and HEAT-FRAG – the latter an exploding anti-armor round that uses chemical, not kinetic energy to penetrate its target and has a secondary use against buildings and people since it produces blast and fragments.
Also, I am not aware that IMI produce such ammunition anyway. I admit to being a bit rusty on this but last I checked IMI only produced tungsten cored APFSDS rounds. Isreal is reported to have recieved about 300 M833 APFSDS DU rounds from the United States but these would be quite precious and not used against anything short of a Syrian armored brigade full of T-72’s.
DU though has become a buzzword for the anti-nuke and anti-war crowd who for the most part have absoletely no idea what the material is used for. Many really think these are actually nuclear weapons!