Doctors say Israel testing new, banned micro-cube shrapnel and heavy metal weapons on Gaza civilians

Bombs then marketed as ‘battle-proven’ as genocidal regime profits from its maimed and murdered victims

The Israeli military is using at least two new types of weapon on civilians in Gaza, one designed to maximise deaths and injuries over the maximum area and the other to leave behind only minute chemical traces in its shrapnel victims.

Volunteer doctors serving in Gaza say that they are finding tungsten micro-cubes of metal, designed to travel at high speeds across a wide area from a missile strike, in the wounds of bombing victims – and in others, no shrapnel is left behind but residues of highly toxic heavy metals remain in victims’ systems to poison them and cause organ failure.

Israeli arms manufacturers then market these weapons as ‘battle proven’:

Both these types of weapon are banned under international war for their indiscriminate nature. As the International Committee of the Red Cross points out, the use of poisoned weapons:

constitutes a war crime in international armed conflicts under the Statute of the International Criminal Court

while Protocol 1 of the Geneva Conventions prohibits the use of

any weapon the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments which in the human body escape detection by X-rays.

Similarly, the tungsten micro-cubes constitute a cluster munition, which is likewise a war crime “under any circumstances under the Convention on Cluster Munitions:

Each State Party undertakes never under any circumstances to:

1. Use cluster munitions;
2. Develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, directly or indirectly, cluster munitions;
3. Assist, encourage or induce anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Convention.

Israel, the rogue, mafia and terror state, is profiting directly from the maiming and murder of its victims. The UK Starmer regime continues to collude with terrorists and gangsters while classifying a group as terrorists that damages Israeli weapons factories.

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