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White phosphorus

December 2023

  • US 'concerned' about reports of Israel using white phosphorus in Lebanon – video

    The Israeli defence minister said the IDF was operating according to international law

December 2019

  • Smoke and fire rise from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn during the Turkish offensive against Kurdish groups in north-east Syria in October.

    Ilhan Omar writes to US Syria envoy over Turkish white phosphorus allegations

    Congresswoman calls on US Syria envoy to give full briefing on October incident in border town

October 2019

  • Kurdish officials accused Turkey of using ‘unconventional weapons’ around Ras al-Ayn on Thursday.

    Investigation into alleged use of white phosphorus in Syria

  • Turkish soldiers in the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad.

    Fighting continues on Syria-Turkey border as war crimes alleged

June 2011

  • Israel accused after Palestinian boys burned by mystery canister

    Military experts say unidentified devices found in West Bank may have contained outlawed white phosphorus

May 2009

  • A US Marine on patrol in the Farah province of Afghanistan

    US accuses Afghan militants of using phosphorus

    White phosphorus has been used in attacks on American forces and in civilian areas, US claims

April 2009

  • Greenslade
    Times vindicated over Israel's use of white phosphorus in Gaza

    The Times has been vindicated for running stories about the use by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) of white phophorus. It has secured a significant admission that IDF troops did use white phosphorus when attacking the people of Gaza last year

March 2009

  • A shell fired by the Israeli military explodes in the northern Gaza Strip

    Gaza white phosphorus: 'They say that Israel used white phosphorus in a way that killed civilians'

  • White Phosphorus

    Israel accused of indiscriminate phosphorus use in Gaza

23 February 2009

  • Amnesty calls on US to suspend arms sales to Israel

    Hellfire missiles and white phosphorus artillery shells among weapons used in 'indiscriminate' attacks on civilians, says human rights group
  • Relatives mourn a Palestinian man killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza

    Suspend military aid to Israel, Amnesty urges Obama after detailing US weapons used in Gaza

    Human rights group calls for immediate embargo on arms as white phosphorus shells traced back to America

  • Smoke screen over assault on Gaza

    Letter: Clive Margolis (Letters, 18 February) provides a smoke screen analogous to that produced by white phosphorus munition

January 2009

  • News blog
    Israeli army investigates use of white phosphorus in Gaza

  • Israel and the white heat of justice

    John Palmer

  • Gaza doctors struggle to treat deadly burns consistent with white phosphorus

  • White phosphorus in Gaza: the victims

  • Gaza film shows white phosphorus from alleged Israeli attack

  • Evidence of white phosphorus in Gaza

  • Fresh evidence of Israeli phosphorus use in Gaza emerges

  • Phosphorus bombs in Gaza – the evidence

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