{"id":10050,"date":"2009-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-14T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T12:58:04","slug":"depleted-uranium-found-in-gaza-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=10050","title":{"rendered":"Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medics tell Press TV they have found traces of depleted uranium in some Gazan residents wounded in Israel&#8217;s ground offensive into the strip.<\/p>\n<p>Norwegian medics told Press TV correspondent Akram al-Sattari that some of the victims who have been wounded since Israel began its attacks on the Gaza Strip on December 27 have traces of depleted uranium in their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes after Israeli tanks and troops swept across the border into Gaza on Saturday night, opening a ground operation after eight days of intensive attacks by Israeli air and naval forces on the impoverished region.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned on Sunday that the wide-ranging ground offensive in the Gaza Strip would be &#8220;full of surprises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A ground offensive in the densely-populated Gaza is expected to drastically increase the death toll of the civilian population.<\/p>\n<p>The latest assaults bring the number of Palestinians killed to over 488 with 2790 others wounded. The UN says that about 25 percent of the casualties were civilian deaths &#8211; including at least 34 children.<\/p>\n<p>According to Israeli army officials, at least 30 of its soldiers have been wounded since the start of the ground campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Amid global condemnation of the ongoing violence in the region, the UN Security Council failed to agree on a united approach to resolve the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Once again, the world is watching in dismay the dysfunctionality of the Security Council,&#8221; UN General Assembly chief Miguel d&#8217;Escoto said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to diplomatic sources, the US blocked a Security Council resolution, with US Deputy Ambassador Alejandro Wolff arguing that an official statement that criticizes both Israel and Hamas would not be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has so far declined to comment on whether an Israeli ground incursion into Gaza is a justified measure.<\/p>\n<p>AA\/DT\/CS\/MD<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail.aspx?id=80443\u00a7ionid=351020202<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian medics tell Press TV that they\u2019ve found traces of Depleted Uranium in some of the wounded they treated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Depleted_Uranium"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14280,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions\/14280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}