{"id":296435,"date":"2024-10-10T06:12:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T06:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296435"},"modified":"2024-10-11T07:40:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T07:40:43","slug":"israel-drops-depleted-uranium-bombs-inside-beirut-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=296435","title":{"rendered":"Israel drops ‘depleted uranium bombs’ inside Beirut: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cradle \u2013 Oct 8, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

On October 6, the head of the president of the Lebanese Association of Social Medicine said Israel has been bombing the southern suburbs of Beirut using banned bombs with uranium warheads and called for collecting samples from the bombed sites to send to the UN as part of an international investigation.<\/p>\n

President of the Lebanese Association of Social Medicine Raif Reda called for \u201ccollecting samples from the bombing sites and sending reports to the United Nations so the world can witness the bloody, criminal history of the Zionist enemy,\u201d according to statements reported<\/a> by the National News Agency<\/em> (NNA).<\/p>\n

Warheads made with depleted uranium casings are designed to penetrate deep fortifications, causing significant destruction and releasing toxic gases. They are also radioactive and have been linked to massive increases in cancer rates in Iraq following the US wars on that country in 1991 and 2003.<\/p>\n

Lebanese newspaper L’Orient Today<\/em> reports<\/a> that Israeli air forces may have used depleted uranium bombs when its air force dropped 80 one-ton (2,000lb) bombs on at least four residential buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs on September 27 to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> notes<\/a> that a video released by the Israeli army showed that the warplanes that flew the mission to assassinate Nasrallah were each equipped with six US-made BLU-109 missiles.<\/p>\n

L’Orient Today<\/em> notes that according to a report<\/a> from the US Naval Institute, the most common type of explosives inside these missiles are bombs classified as GBU-31.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guided munitions are known for their ability to penetrate heavily reinforced concrete or steel structures thanks to a casing made of depleted uranium (DU), used for its high density, which enhances the bombs’ resistance upon ground impact,\u201d the Lebanese newspaper added.<\/p>\n

The Israeli air force has already been known to use these bombs in Gaza. A report submitted to the UN Human Rights Commission documented the drop of GBU-31, GBU-32, and GBU-39 bombs documented airstrikes by the Israeli air force carried out on residential buildings, a school, refugee camps, and a market between October 9 and December 2, 2023.<\/p>\n

Depleted uranium munitions pose a risk to civilians years after a site is bombed because they release radioactive particles upon impact and contaminate the soil and surrounding environment.<\/p>\n

It is well known that the US Air Force used depleted uranium warheads during both its wars in Iraq.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Researcher Souad al-Azzawi, an associate professor of environmental engineering at Canadian University Dubai and former director of the doctoral program in environmental engineering at the University of Baghdad, cites<\/a> studies showing that children’s leukemia cases increased by 60 percent between 1990 and 1997 and that birth defects tripled between 1990 and 1998 in Basra, Iraq.<\/div>\n

The US Air Force bombed Basra in response to Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Al-Azzawi\u00a0says\u00a0that depleted uranium used during such conflicts is responsible for the rise in cancer and birth defects in the area.<\/p>\n

Depleted uranium is one of the most widely discussed contaminants in relation to birth defects. The World Health Organization released a report<\/a> in 2003 titled \u201cPotential Impact of Conflict on Health in Iraq,\u201d which suggested that depleted uranium might be related to reports of increased cancers, birth defects, reproductive health problems, and renal diseases in the Iraqi population since 2003.<\/p>\n

The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) reported<\/a> that depleted uranium may be among the causes of a massive spike in birth defects among children in Falluja, which US forces bombed heavily during battles with insurgents in April and November 2004.<\/p>\n

MERIP noted that the Falluja Hospital’s birth defects Facebook page, where medical staff cataloged cases, revealed numerous different congenital anomalies. Babies in Falluja are regularly born<\/a> with hydrocephaly, cleft palates, tumors, elongated heads, overgrown limbs, short limbs, and malformed ears, noses, and spines.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the support of the U.S. and Britain, Israel has been using Depleted Uranium in Beirut. Similar to those used in Iraq, these munitions leave a fine residue of almost indiscernible radioactive dust that will leave a legacy of birth defects and cancers for generations to come <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":296437,"comment_status":"open","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":[118,58,49,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Current_Affairs","category-Depleted_Uranium","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296435","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=296435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296439,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296435\/revisions\/296439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}