DIME bombs produce an unusually powerful blast within a relatively small area, spraying a superheated “micro-shrapnel” of powdered Heavy Metal Tungsten Alloy (HMTA). Scientific studies have found that HMTA is chemically toxic, damages the immune system, rapidly causes cancer, and attacks DNA (genotoxic).

The first reports about ‘Israel’s new weapon’ came from Dr Joma Al-Saqqa, chief of the emergency unit at Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa. Dr. Al-Saqqa said that Israel was using “a new ‘chemical’ weapon” and its siege was “a live exercise on a new ammunition that, so far, has resulted in killing 50 Palestinians and injuring 200.” He observed that, “despite the damage in internal s...

DIME bombs produce an unusually powerful blast within a relatively small area, spraying a superheated “micro-shrapnel” of powdered Heavy Metal Tungsten Alloy (HMTA). Scientific studies have found that HMTA is chemically toxic, damages the immune system, rapidly causes cancer, and attacks DNA (genotoxic).

The first reports about ‘Israel’s new weapon’ came from Dr Joma Al-Saqqa, chief of the emergency unit at Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa. Dr. Al-Saqqa said that Israel was using “a new ‘chemical’ weapon” and its siege was “a live exercise on a new ammunition that, so far, has resulted in killing 50 Palestinians and injuring 200.” He observed that, “despite the damage in internal soft tissue in the bodies of injured people, the fragments were not detected by X-ray. In other words, they had disappeared or dissolved inside the body.”

“There were usually entry and exit wounds,” Dr. Al-Saqqa reported. “When the wounds were explored no foreign material was found. There was tissue death, the extent of which was difficult to determine…. A higher deep infection rate resulted with subsequent amputation. In spite of amputation there was a higher mortality.” The effects of the weapon seemed “radioactive”.

As time goes on it becomes more & more obvious the US administrations since the time of Nixon are riddled with war criminals that are puppets for the military-industrial complex.What country in the world would have in its highest echelons of government a duel citizen of another country namely Israel.Former war criminals like Kissinger are still free and exalted.There is something "sick" in both countries how can the so called leader of the west lead its allies when all its dirty weaponry keeps surfacing ?poisoning its own used forces with depleted uranium from first Gulf war and sullying the reputations of its allies.US & Israel are on the nose.I dont believe the "KGB" led Russians or Chines...

As time goes on it becomes more & more obvious the US administrations since the time of Nixon are riddled with war criminals that are puppets for the military-industrial complex.What country in the world would have in its highest echelons of government a duel citizen of another country namely Israel.Former war criminals like Kissinger are still free and exalted.There is something "sick" in both countries how can the so called leader of the west lead its allies when all its dirty weaponry keeps surfacing ?poisoning its own used forces with depleted uranium from first Gulf war and sullying the reputations of its allies.US & Israel are on the nose.I dont believe the "KGB" led Russians or Chinese are better just the usual need of just UN in a modern world is over due.

The US is either vilified for selling weapons or praised: depends on which side you're on. Being a capitalist society, selling weapons to our allies is OK.

Now, that said, how does the writer of the article know that the wounds depicted are from US bombs and not from Russia or China, and even if there is proof, so what? And, the writer of the article says it's an Arab that was injured - of course there are many pictures and obviously they are not all the same patient - but how would we know he's Arab? What if he's actually an Israeli injured by a bomb Hamas sent into Israel within the last 3 years? We can't even tell where or when the pictures were taken.

My point is - just becau...

The US is either vilified for selling weapons or praised: depends on which side you're on. Being a capitalist society, selling weapons to our allies is OK.

Now, that said, how does the writer of the article know that the wounds depicted are from US bombs and not from Russia or China, and even if there is proof, so what? And, the writer of the article says it's an Arab that was injured - of course there are many pictures and obviously they are not all the same patient - but how would we know he's Arab? What if he's actually an Israeli injured by a bomb Hamas sent into Israel within the last 3 years? We can't even tell where or when the pictures were taken.

My point is - just because it's on the internet doesn't make it true or accurate. We still need to use our God-given brains to question, and not believe every piece of propaganda with gross pictures. I've seen just as horrible injuries after a drunk driver plows his car into another. In fact - I've seen worse and no bombs were involved at all. Just stupidity.

@Ilsadago1 You basic point would appear to be that we should be dubious of any evidence presented on the net. I trust that it is not a case of evidence presented that is anti Zionist that is your concern about net sources. This particularly concerns me. I have no problem with being out front and stating where I stand on the Nazionists. Have you the honesty to do the same?

If you check my sources you will see that I use Guardian, Ha'aretz, and impeccable sources. I'll very seldom use blog sources. In my many years with ClipMarks both as ratcatcher2 and righthand, NO ONE has successful challenged by sources. I'll attribute naïvety for now as the reason for your incipient remarks. [qu...

@Ilsadago1 You basic point would appear to be that we should be dubious of any evidence presented on the net. I trust that it is not a case of evidence presented that is anti Zionist that is your concern about net sources. This particularly concerns me. I have no problem with being out front and stating where I stand on the Nazionists. Have you the honesty to do the same?

If you check my sources you will see that I use Guardian, Ha'aretz, and impeccable sources. I'll very seldom use blog sources. In my many years with ClipMarks both as ratcatcher2 and righthand, NO ONE has successful challenged by sources. I'll attribute naïvety for now as the reason for your incipient remarks.

The US is either vilified for selling weapons or praised: depends on which side you're on. Being a capitalist society, selling weapons to our allies is OK.

You surely were not suggesting that the US was supplying Hamas with experimental sophisticated weapons???

Now, that said, how does the writer of the article know that the wounds depicted are from US bombs and not from Russia or China, and even if there is proof, so what?

Yet you suggest that Russia or China might do so!!!! Can you be serious???
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@Ilsadago1

What if he's actually an Israeli injured by a bomb Hamas sent into Israel within the last 3 years?

Is this more of the Zionist problem of always being the victim race, never understood, but jealous of all others who are genuine victims. The ones who somehow believe that WW2 was all about them and their Holocaust Industry? Would you by some twisted logic prefer that the victim was Israeli??? Don't you know that in another perversion of Nazionist logic, that the victim is always at fault!!! I am so underwhelmed by the quality of your argument to-date that before I waste more time on your musings that I'll await first a response first.

Please demonstra...

@Ilsadago1

What if he's actually an Israeli injured by a bomb Hamas sent into Israel within the last 3 years?

Is this more of the Zionist problem of always being the victim race, never understood, but jealous of all others who are genuine victims. The ones who somehow believe that WW2 was all about them and their Holocaust Industry? Would you by some twisted logic prefer that the victim was Israeli??? Don't you know that in another perversion of Nazionist logic, that the victim is always at fault!!! I am so underwhelmed by the quality of your argument to-date that before I waste more time on your musings that I'll await first a response first.

Please demonstrate to me that you are not some kid playing at been grown up? I await your response.

I noticed that one picture is dated 2006. That is why I questioned the veracity of the photos. Bombs are made by every country - by every terrorist - by every group that thinks that the way to get their point across is to blow something up.

All I ask for is parity. Equal reporting. Hamas sends bombs into Israeli neighborhoods for years and you seem to disregard that fact. Do you honestly believe that the bombs they use caused no injuries? That they have nothing as sophisticated?

The type of bomb matters little - it's how it's used, when it's used, IF it's used that counts. In this both sides are guilty. The world is guilty. Not just the US. Not just Russian. Not just Hamas. ...

I noticed that one picture is dated 2006. That is why I questioned the veracity of the photos. Bombs are made by every country - by every terrorist - by every group that thinks that the way to get their point across is to blow something up.

All I ask for is parity. Equal reporting. Hamas sends bombs into Israeli neighborhoods for years and you seem to disregard that fact. Do you honestly believe that the bombs they use caused no injuries? That they have nothing as sophisticated?

The type of bomb matters little - it's how it's used, when it's used, IF it's used that counts. In this both sides are guilty. The world is guilty. Not just the US. Not just Russian. Not just Hamas. Not just Israel.

It seems you are more interested in generating hate for one group over another...where does it stop? Does it only stop when YOUR group wins? No.

I'm Christian. I'm Italian-American. I have no relatives in Israel or Gaza. But above all else, I'm a human being, intelligent and reasonably well-informed. I don't just allow the media or the internet to make up my mind for me. I find it deplorable that Hamas has continued their terrorist activities and I feel saddened that Israel, in order to protect itself from them, have had to escalate a war to wipe out the threat.

Now prove to me that you're not the child covering his eyes and thinking no one sees him.

@Ilsadago1
Please read this first. It's a more neutral version of the 'terrorist' Hamas than you will normally find. I'd appreciate your comments subsequently.
America's Hidden Role in Hamas's Rise to Power:
No one in the mainstream media or government is willing to acknowledge America's sordid role interfering in Palestinian politics.

The Gaza Boomerang
...and most important...
Lost in the Rubble

Hamas, he constan...

@Ilsadago1
Please read this first. It's a more neutral version of the 'terrorist' Hamas than you will normally find. I'd appreciate your comments subsequently.
America's Hidden Role in Hamas's Rise to Power:
No one in the mainstream media or government is willing to acknowledge America's sordid role interfering in Palestinian politics.

The Gaza Boomerang
...and most important...
Lost in the Rubble

Hamas, he constantly reminded me, began to
target Israeli civilians in 1994 only after Palestinian worshipers were gunned down in a Hebron mosque by a Jewish settler, Baruch Goldstein. Goldstein was a resident of the nearby Kiryat Arba settlement. He entered the mosque dressed in his army uniform, carrying an IMI Galil assault rifle and four magazines of ammunition. He opened fire on those in prayer, killing 29 people and injuring 125. He was rushed and beaten to death by the survivors.

“Before the massacre we targeted only the
Israeli military,” Rayan said. “We can’t sit by and watch Palestinian
civilians killed year after year and do nothing. When Israel stops
killing our civilians we will stop killing their civilians.”

Rayan was a theology and law professor at Islamic University in Gaza.

I apologise for misreading your intentions.

I'd already done so.

Baruch Kappel Goldstein was an American born Israeli physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, killing Muslims at prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque.

On February 25, 1994, that year's Purim day, Goldstein entered a room in the Cave of the Patriarchs serving as a mosque, wearing "his army uniform with the insignia of rank, creating the image of a reserve officer on active duty". He then opened fire. A Time Magazine article from March 7th, 1994 reported that Palestinians reported 52 killed. Mosque guard Mohammad Suleiman Abu Saleh said he thought that Goldstein wa...

I'd already done so.

Baruch Kappel Goldstein was an American born Israeli physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, killing Muslims at prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque.

On February 25, 1994, that year's Purim day, Goldstein entered a room in the Cave of the Patriarchs serving as a mosque, wearing "his army uniform with the insignia of rank, creating the image of a reserve officer on active duty". He then opened fire. A Time Magazine article from March 7th, 1994 reported that Palestinians reported 52 killed. Mosque guard Mohammad Suleiman Abu Saleh said he thought that Goldstein was trying to kill as many people as possible and described how there were "bodies and blood everywhere." After being subdued with a fire extinguisher and disarmed, Goldstein was beaten to death. According to Ian Lustick, 'by mowing down Arabs he believed wanted to kill Jews, Goldstein was reenacting part of the Purim story. The death certificate issued by the Israeli Ministry of the Interior lists the cause of his death as "murder."

Palestinian rioting immediately followed the shooting, leading in the following week to the deaths of 25 Palestinians and five Israelis. Following the massacre, Israel imposed a two-week curfew on the 120,000 Palestinian residents of the city, while the 400 Jewish settlers remained free to move around.

The Israeli government condemned the massacre. PM Rabin telephoned Arafat, describing the attack as a "loathsome, criminal act of murder"

Goldstein had refused to treat non-Jews, even those serving in the IDF. When Goldstein was threatened with court-martial he declared: "I am not willing to treat any non-Jew. I recognize as legitimate only two religious authorities: Maimonides and Kahane." His graveside has become a pilgrimage site for those with extreme right-wing political views; a plaque ...