{"id":9334,"date":"2009-02-18T07:03:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T04:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2013-10-10T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T07:14:33","slug":"lab-tests-reveal-israel-used-phosphorus-bombs-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/02\/18\/lab-tests-reveal-israel-used-phosphorus-bombs-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab tests reveal Israel used phosphorus bombs in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"detay-spot\">Laboratory tests conducted on a piece of soil brought from Gaza to Turkey by a human rights association revealed that Israel used phosphorus bombs against Gaza during its three-week war starting in late 2008, the Vakit daily reported yesterday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span class=\"detay-spot\">\u0130stanbul&#8217;s Y\u0131ld\u0131z Technical University, which conducted the laboratory tests on the soil brought from Gaza by the Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples (MAZLUM-DER) found particles of phosphorus bombs, which are prohibited under international conventions. More than 1,300 people, including children and women, were killed, and thousands of others were injured during the 22-day Israeli attacks on Gaza, which drew worldwide protests and international condemnation. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span class=\"detay-spot\">Following the laboratory results, MAZLUM-DER filed <\/span><\/span><span><span class=\"detay-spot\">a criminal complaint against Israel at the \u0130stanbul&#8217;s Prosecutor&#8217;s Office yesterday. The use of phosphorus bombs against civilians was banned (by signatory countries) in the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III. Phosphorus bombs, which include toxic materials, cause burns on the body and damage the liver, kidneys and heart.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/tz-web\/detaylar.do?load=detay&amp;link=167236&amp;bolum=100\"><span class=\"ekprop-p\">TODAY&#8217;S ZAMAN<\/span><\/span>, 18 February 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laboratory tests conducted on a piece of soil brought from Gaza to Turkey by a human rights association revealed that Israel used phosphorus bombs against Gaza during its three-week war starting in late 2008, the Vakit daily reported yesterday. \u0130stanbul&#8217;s Y\u0131ld\u0131z Technical University, which conducted the laboratory tests on the soil brought from Gaza by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":69952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}