Rome, 11 Oct. (AKI) - Israel may have used an experimental weapon against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, causing especially serious physical injuries, such as amputated limbs and severe burns, according to an investigative report to be aired Wednesday on Italian state television. | Gee, that's never happened before |
Israeli daily Haaretz published a detailed report on the programme ahead of its screening.
The weapon which is similar to one developed by the US military, known as DIME, causes a powerful and lethal blast, but only within a relatively small radius, Haaretz said. | DIME (Dense Inert Metal Explosive)is part of the Small Diameter Bomb progtam. Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME) is uniquely suited for Low Collateral Damage. It produces lower pressure but increased impulse in the near field. Far Field damage is reduced (no frags/ impulse rolloff). The lethal footprint can be tuned to precision footprint. So the Zionists are dropping smaller bombs to reduce colateral damage? How evil of them. |
The Italian Rai News 24 report is based on eyewitness accounts of medical doctors in the Strip, as well as tests carried out in an Italian laboratory.
The investigative team is the same one that exposed, several months ago, the use by US forces in Iraq of phosphorous bombs, against Iraqi rebels in Faluja.
The investigation, by Rai News 24, follows reports by Gaza-based doctors of inexplicably serious injuries. The doctors reported an exceptionally large number of wounded who lost legs, of completely burned bodies and injuries unaccompanied by metal shrapnel. Some of the doctors also claimed that they removed particles from wounds that could not be seen in an X-ray machine. |