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Wide of what is alleged to be white phosphorus shell being used over Gaza during the offensive ++NIGHT SHOT++2. Wide of tentacle-like smoke falling over...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eGaza skyline, shot from Israel-Gaza Border - January 2009 (Recent)\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of what is alleged to be white phosphorus shell being used over Gaza during the offensive ++NIGHT SHOT++\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of tentacle-like smoke falling over mosque \u003cbr/\u003e3. Streams of smoke of what could be a white phosphorus shell\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eKhan Younis, Gaza Strip - 11 January 2009\u003cbr/\u003e4. Doctors standing over masked burns victim who was allegedly burnt by use of white phosphorus over populated area\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close-up of masked burns victim on bed (cousin of Haitham Tahseen - see below)\u003cbr/\u003e6. Another burned victim lying on hospital bed\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close-up of burns victim\u003cbr/\u003e8. Doctors looking over burns victim\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Haitham Tahseen, burns victim:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I was sitting with my family. Suddenly I saw a flash of light from a bomb and from it came white smoke and as you see this is my condition at the moment, me and my cousin.\" \u003cbr/\u003e(Reporter's question: \"What did it look like?\")\u003cbr/\u003e\"It was very, very red and a white smoke came out of it. It was the first time I saw such a thing.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Doctor covering up masked burn victim, using reflective sheet and blanket\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Youssef Abu Rish, chief doctor at Nasser Hospital: \u003cbr/\u003e\"As you can see, this is an example of several cases that came to Nasser Hospital this morning. As testified by the injured and some of the eyewitnesses who were there, the injuries are a result of a strange object which landed as a bomb. It exploded, creating a white gas, and this led to the burns. This has spread on the bodies of the injured, creating burns of varying degrees, depending on the quantity of the gas - or this white material - which spread on their bodies.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eGaza skyline, shot from Israel-Gaza Border - January 2009 (Recent)\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of Gaza Strip with explosion creating tentacle-like smoke\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eJerusalem - 12 January 2009\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of Marc Garlasco, a senior military analyst for Human Rights Watch looking at footage of what appears to be a white phosphorus shell\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close up on video footage of what appears to be white phosphorus falling over Gaza with pull out Garlasco watching\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marc Garlasco, Senior Military Analyst for Human Rights Watch:\u003cbr/\u003e\"You can watch very clearly the jellyfish effect of the white phosphorus shell. When the 155 (millimetre artillery shell) is exploded in mid air, you basically have what looks like the head of a jellyfish and the tentacles coming down on fire and those tentacles have the filaments, the 116 filaments in each shell, that then are going to burn until they burn out. It'll burn for approximately five to ten minutes, depending on atmospheric conditions and this causes extreme fire and the potential for civilian harm.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eGaza skyline, shot from Israel-Gaza Border - January 2009 (Recent)\u003cbr/\u003e16. Shell exploding over Gaza\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eJerusalem - 11 January 2009\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of Israeli army spokeswoman, Major Avital Leibovich\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major Avital Leibovich, Israeli army spokeswoman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The IDF is using its munition with accordance to the international law, and the IDF is also using munition which is in worldwide used.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eGaza skyline, shot from Israel-Gaza Border - January 2009 (recent)\u003cbr/\u003e19. Shells exploding over Gaza\u003cbr/\u003eThe international pressure group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that Israel's military fired artillery shells packed with the incendiary agent white phosphorus over populated areas of Gaza, including a crowded refugee camp, putting civilians at risk.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Israeli military has denied the allegations. \u003cbr/\u003eBut in an interview with AP Television News on Monday, Marc Garlasco, a senior military analyst for Human Rights Watch said that the Israeli army fired phosphorus shells over the Jebaliya refugee camp and in other densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip.\u003cbr/\u003eHRW researchers said they witnessed hours of artillery bombardments on Friday and Saturday afternoon from Israel's border in which shells burst over northern Gaza, sending out trails of burning smoke that - according to HRW - indicate the shells contained white phosphorus.\u003cbr/\u003eThe substance can cause serious burns if it touches the skin, HRW said, and while its use is not illegal, parties to the Geneva Conventions are expected to minimise harm caused by it.\u003cbr/\u003e\"You can watch very clearly the jellyfish effect of the white phosphorus shell,\" said Garlasco.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It'll burn for approximately five to ten minutes, depending on atmospheric conditions. This causes extreme fire and the potential for civilian harm,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a hospital in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis on Sunday, AP Television News filmed several patients who were suffering from serious burns. \u003cbr/\u003eHaitham Tahseen, his face covered with medical cream, said he had been with his family when suddenly he \"saw a flash of light from a bomb and from it came white smoke.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHis cousin, in another hospital bed, was more severely burned - patches of skin were peeling off his face and body and he was covered in protective material.\u003cbr/\u003eThe hospital's chief doctor, Youssef Abu Rish, said the burns were not from contact with fire.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said they might have been caused by phosphorus, although he added that he lacked the resources or expertise to confirm this.\u003cbr/\u003e\"As testified by the injured and some of the eyewitnesses who were there, the injuries are a result of a strange object which landed as a bomb,\" said the doctor.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It exploded, creating a white gas, and this led to the burns,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eWhite phosphorus is not considered a chemical weapon, and militaries are permitted under laws of warfare to use it in artillery shells, bombs and rockets to create smoke screens to hide troop movements as well as bright bursts in the air to illuminate battlefields at night.\u003cbr/\u003eMilitary spokeswoman Major Avital Leibovich refused to comment directly on whether Israel was using phosphorus, but said the army was \"using its munition with accordance to the international law,\" adding that the IDF was using munitions in worldwide use.\u003cbr/\u003eIsrael used white phosphorus in its 34-day war in Lebanon in 2006.\u003cbr/\u003eThe US military in Iraq also used the incendiary during a November 2004 operation against insurgents in the city of Fallujah.\u003cbr/\u003eIsrael is not party to a convention regulating its use. \u003cbr/\u003eUnder customary laws of war, however, Israel would be expected to take all feasible precautions to minimise the impact of white phosphorus on civilians, Human Rights Watch said.\u003cbr/\u003eGarlasco was among researchers on a ridge about a mile (1.5 kilometres) from the Gaza border who observed the shelling from a 155mm artillery unit.\u003cbr/\u003eEach 155mm shell contains 116 of what Garlasco described as wafers doused in phosphorus that can be spread over an area as large as a sports field, depending on the height at which it detonates.\u003cbr/\u003eThe phosphorus ignites when it comes in contact with oxygen.\u003cbr/\u003eHRW has a consultant working for it inside Gaza but he has been unable to move around due to the danger.\u003cbr/\u003eThe group said that it had no way to investigate whether anyone was injured on the ground because its researchers have been barred by Israel from entering the territory.\u003cbr/\u003eForeign journalists have also been barred from entering 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