These fuckers are dropping white phosphorus bombs on Lebanon!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116201901035033328
These fuckers are dropping white phosphorus bombs on Lebanon! Each bomb shoots out 116 burning felt wedges impregnated with white phosphorus over an area up to 250 meters in diameter. And they're dropping them on people's apartments:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfully-using-white-phosphorus
White phosphorus is nasty stuff. Particles of white phosphorus catch on fire as soon as they touch air, and they continue to burn until completely consumed or starved of oxygen. If they land on you not only do they burn holes in you, the phosphorus can cause liver, heart and kidney damage.
If white phosphorus burns you, you need to immediately smother it using water, damp cloth or mud, isolating it from oxygen until fragments can be removed. Military forces typically do this with a bayonet or knife. Then you can apply bicarbonate solution to the wound to neutralise any build-up of phosphoric acid, and make sure to remove of remaining visible fragments: these are easily observed since they glow in the dark. You may also need to cut away tissue around the wound to remove fragments too small to see.
I will not show you a picture of a kid in Gaza after his white phosphorus landed on his back. Just imagine someone doing this to your neighborhood.
For more on Israel's use of white phosphorus bombs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munition#Use_by_Israeli_forces_in_Gaza
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116201901035033328
These fuckers are dropping white phosphorus bombs on Lebanon! Each bomb shoots out 116 burning felt wedges impregnated with white phosphorus over an area up to 250 meters in diameter. And they're dropping them on people's apartments:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfully-using-white-phosphorus
White phosphorus is nasty stuff. Particles of white phosphorus catch on fire as soon as they touch air, and they continue to burn until completely consumed or starved of oxygen. If they land on you not only do they burn holes in you, the phosphorus can cause liver, heart and kidney damage.
If white phosphorus burns you, you need to immediately smother it using water, damp cloth or mud, isolating it from oxygen until fragments can be removed. Military forces typically do this with a bayonet or knife. Then you can apply bicarbonate solution to the wound to neutralise any build-up of phosphoric acid, and make sure to remove of remaining visible fragments: these are easily observed since they glow in the dark. You may also need to cut away tissue around the wound to remove fragments too small to see.
I will not show you a picture of a kid in Gaza after his white phosphorus landed on his back. Just imagine someone doing this to your neighborhood.
For more on Israel's use of white phosphorus bombs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munition#Use_by_Israeli_forces_in_Gaza
@johncarlosbaez
Use of white phosphorus on civilians is horrific beyond words, and unquestionably constitutes a terrible war crime.The loophole is always that the aggressors, like Israel here, claim that the use was on a military target, and civilians nearby were merely unfortunate.
I don't believe them, but proving it in the right jurisdiction is another matter.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116201901035033328
These fuckers are dropping white phosphorus bombs on Lebanon! Each bomb shoots out 116 burning felt wedges impregnated with white phosphorus over an area up to 250 meters in diameter. And they're dropping them on people's apartments:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfully-using-white-phosphorus
White phosphorus is nasty stuff. Particles of white phosphorus catch on fire as soon as they touch air, and they continue to burn until completely consumed or starved of oxygen. If they land on you not only do they burn holes in you, the phosphorus can cause liver, heart and kidney damage.
If white phosphorus burns you, you need to immediately smother it using water, damp cloth or mud, isolating it from oxygen until fragments can be removed. Military forces typically do this with a bayonet or knife. Then you can apply bicarbonate solution to the wound to neutralise any build-up of phosphoric acid, and make sure to remove of remaining visible fragments: these are easily observed since they glow in the dark. You may also need to cut away tissue around the wound to remove fragments too small to see.
I will not show you a picture of a kid in Gaza after his white phosphorus landed on his back. Just imagine someone doing this to your neighborhood.
For more on Israel's use of white phosphorus bombs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munition#Use_by_Israeli_forces_in_Gaza
@johncarlosbaez throwing babies into a fire is terrible, but throwing fire onto babies is fine
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@julie @johncarlosbaez
I'm not defending them. I just mean that people accused of war crimes always find a way to say it wasn't *quite* bad enough to be called a war crime, one way or another. -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116201901035033328
These fuckers are dropping white phosphorus bombs on Lebanon! Each bomb shoots out 116 burning felt wedges impregnated with white phosphorus over an area up to 250 meters in diameter. And they're dropping them on people's apartments:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfully-using-white-phosphorus
White phosphorus is nasty stuff. Particles of white phosphorus catch on fire as soon as they touch air, and they continue to burn until completely consumed or starved of oxygen. If they land on you not only do they burn holes in you, the phosphorus can cause liver, heart and kidney damage.
If white phosphorus burns you, you need to immediately smother it using water, damp cloth or mud, isolating it from oxygen until fragments can be removed. Military forces typically do this with a bayonet or knife. Then you can apply bicarbonate solution to the wound to neutralise any build-up of phosphoric acid, and make sure to remove of remaining visible fragments: these are easily observed since they glow in the dark. You may also need to cut away tissue around the wound to remove fragments too small to see.
I will not show you a picture of a kid in Gaza after his white phosphorus landed on his back. Just imagine someone doing this to your neighborhood.
For more on Israel's use of white phosphorus bombs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munition#Use_by_Israeli_forces_in_Gaza
(If you have ever felt that there is something weird about IHL and laws of war, continue reading)
Laws of war are dual use. IHL and the like do not exist just to reduce suffering, but to standardize and legitimize it in the public conscience so that war remains a tool of statecraft.
The 19th-century peace movements in the West were no joke. During the Hague Conventions, generals and legal minds determined what level of horror was militarily necessary and what level was economically or politically unsustainable. The conventions were the initiative of Tsar Nicholas II.. he and his ministers wanted to place limits on the lethal arms race because Russia was unable to compete.
The principle of superfluous injury, used to ban certain weapons, keeps a war something young men can volunteer into. In 1995, this principle was used to ban blinding laser weapons. A relatively easy method to permanently blind thousands of soldiers on the battlefield threatened the viability of war as a tool.
"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out."
– Letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to James M. Calhoun, et al. (1864) -
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