Deformed embryos in Gaza due to IOF use of banned weapons

Deformed embryos in Gaza due to IOF use of banned weapons

[ 27/09/2009 - 10:00 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian ministry of health has declared that a number of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip had delivered deformed babies and attributed the phenomenon to the Israeli occupation forces' (IOF) use of internationally banned weapons during the latest war on Gaza.

Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, the director of the ambulance and emergency department, said that the deformities were caused by the IOF troops' use of those weapons against civilians such as white phosphorus, dyme and various kinds of poisonous gases.

He noted that those weapons were intensively used in a number of areas in the Strip.

The health official said that only ten months after the war on Gaza five deformed embryos were detected for babies conceived during and after the war.

There could be other hereditary tragedies and diseases especially cancer as a result of the intensified use of those weapons, Hassanein underlined.

He said that a number of international investigation committees and institutions had taken samples of those weapons during their tour of Gaza but did not disclose them before the world to protect Israeli leaders from prosecution at international courts for crimes against humanity.

Birth defects in Gaza due to illegal weapons used by “Israel” during the war

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Birth defects in Gaza due to illegal weapons used by Israel during the war

by Saed Bannoura

September 25, 2009 – IMEMC

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported Friday that eight months after the Israeli war ended, several birth defect cases were reported among the Gaza Strip newborns.

Dr. Mowaiya Hassanen, director of the Emergency department at the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, stated that several newborn babies have heart defects and abnormalities.

He said that such cases are caused by Israel’s use of illegal munitions against the civilians in the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Hassanen further said that five cases appeared after the war, and that illegal weapons were used by Israel in several areas in the coastal region, especially in Al Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza, Izbit Abed-Rabbo, and the Gaza valley, the Maan News Agency reported.

He said that several international researchers and specialists from France and Italy took samples of the mentions used by the Israeli army in Gaza, and found that the army used white phosphorous, and Dense Inert Metal Explosive which could cause biological defects on fetuses, Maan added.

Israeli offensive causes birth defects in Gaza

Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Press TV

Palestinian officials have warned about the spike in the number of birth defects in babies born in Gaza following the Israeli offensive on the coastal strip.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Friday that eight months after the war, the disastrous consequences of the three-week conflict continue to affect the lives of the people of Gaza.

According to Dr. Mowaiya Hassanen, an official in the ministry, Israel’s use of internationally banned weapons, including white phosphorus and depleted uranium, has resulted in a series of abnormalities in newborn babies in Gaza, ranging from heart defects to brain abnormalities.

Medical experts had earlier predicted that the illegal use of the chemical weapons in the densely-populated area would cause a long-lasting tragedy and plague the future generation.

According to Gaza health officials and human rights groups, Israeli forces killed over 1,400 Palestinians, including more than 900 civilians, in the offensive.

The revelation comes shortly after a UN Human Rights report accused Israel of deliberately violating international humanitarian law and using disproportionate force during its “Operation Cast Lead” against the people of Gaza at the beginning of the year.

“The Israeli operations were carefully planned in all their phases as a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population,” the fact-finding mission –led by former South African constitutional court judge, Richard Goldstone– said.