Unconventional Weapons against The People of Gaza
Interview of Dr. Mads Gilbert

by Akram al-Sattari





Global Research, January 6, 2009
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11636


Press TV
 
 

    Photo:  InfoWars http://www.infowars.com/?p=7005
 
This report confirms that these attacks are quite deliberately directed against
civilians, using new unconventional weapons.  

This is a carefully planned humanitarian catastrophe. How can anybody in their
right mind support the actions of the Israeli government.

Read this interview with a distinguished and courageous Norwegian doctor.


Dr. Mads Gilbert

Here are some of the highlights.

"The Israelis are using a new type of very high explosive weapons which are
called Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME) and are made out of a tungsten alloy.
These weapons have an enormous power to explode."
"these weapons will have a cancer effect on those who survive. They will develop
cancer we suspect."

"All that is happening in Gaza here now is against international law, it is
against humanity"

"Almost all of the patients we have received have these sever amputations. They
seem to have been affected by this kind of weapon. Of course, we have many
fragment injuries and burns but those who have got their limbs cut off,
constitutes quite a large proportion.
You know we have a lot to do. Palestinian doctors, nurses and paramedics do an
incredibly heroic job to save their people. Doctor Eric and I are just a small
drip in the ocean, but we learn from them."

And then decide where do you stand.

We stand with the people of Palestine whose lives are being destroyed.

We stand in solidarity with their struggle.

We stand for humanity against the US-Israeli war criminals.  
 
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, January 5, 2009




Doctor Mads Gilbert is a member of a Norwegian triage medical team present in
the besieged Gaza Strip. The team has exposed that Israel has used depleted
uranium weapons in its war on the impoverished territory which is home to 1.5
million Palestinians.
 
He described the conditions inside Gaza in an exclusive Press TV interview.
 

Press TV: What can you tell about the uranium findings?
 
Dr. Mads Gilbert:The findings about the uranium I cannot tell you much about,
but I can tell you that we have clear evidence that the Israelis are using a new
type of very high explosive weapons which are called Dense Inert Metal Explosive
(DIME) and are made out of a tungsten alloy.
 
These weapons have an enormous power to explode.
 
The power of the explosion dissipates very quickly and the strength does not
travel long, maybe 10 meters, but those humans who are hit by this explosion,
this pressure wave are cut in pieces.
 
This was first used in Lebanon in 2006, it was used here in Gaza in 2006 and the
injuries that we see in Shifa [Hospital] now, many many of them I suspect and we
all suspect are the effect of DIME weapons used by the Israelis.
 
On the long term, these weapons will have a cancer effect on those who survive.
They will develop cancer we suspect. There has been very little research on this
but some research has been among other places in the United States, which show
that these weapons have a high tendency to develop cancer. So they kill and
those who survive risk having cancer.
 
Press TV: And what do you have to say about this?
 
Dr. Mads Gilbert: All that is happening in Gaza here now is against
international law, it is against humanity and I think it is against what it
means to be a decent person. You don't treat other people like this. Even if you
disagree with him… maybe even if you fight with them, you don't treat civilians,
children and women like this.
 
And I have an appeal to the Israeli doctors and nurses. They are my colleagues.
We belong to the same international community, the medical community. I wish
that the good doctors and nurses in Israel tell their government to stop these
atrocities. We cannot continue with this. We may differ in opinions, but you
cannot treat the civilian Palestinian population in Gaza in this way.
 
Today, they were bombing in Gaza City; we received 150 wounded and more than 50
killed.
 
Press TV: Only at Shifa?!
 
Dr. Mads Gilbert: Yes, here in Shifa. I treated a ten-year-old boy. He had his
whole chest filled with fragments from the bomb. On his lap was another person's
leg that had been cut off. We resuscitated him and did everything we could do to
save his life but he died between our hands.
 
This is such a terrible experience and behind the numbers that you report all
the time, there are human beings, families, women, grandmothers, children. That
is in fact the reality in this situation. Those who are paying the price for the
Israeli bombardments now are the common people, the Palestinian people.
 
Half of the population in Palestine are below 15 years and 80 percent of the
people in Gaza live below the level of poverty defined by the UN. Now they don't
have food, they don't have electricity. It's cold they don't have warmth and in
addition to that, they are killed.
This must be stopped.
 
Press TV How many people did you see that are effected by this weapon?
 
Dr. Mads Gilbert: Almost all of the patients we have received have these sever
amputations. They seem to have been affected by this kind of weapon. Of course,
we have many fragment injuries and burns but those who have got their limbs cut
off, constitutes quite a large proportion.
 
You know we have a lot to do. Palestinian doctors, nurses and paramedics do an
incredibly heroic job to save their people. Doctor Eric and I are just a small
drip in the ocean, but we learn from them. Unfortunately, we don't have the time
to do research, we have to save lives, but this question should be researched by
the international community.
 
 




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