Vanaf
midden september heeft de VS tot 4 maal toe het in bewoond gebied
verboden chemische wapen witte fosfor ingezet ‘tegen IS’, dit in het
dorp Hajin in de provincie Deir ez-Zor in Syrië……

Toevallig
ligt het dorp Hajin vlakbij een olieraffinaderij, daarover gesproken
de gebieden in Syrië waar de meeste olie te vinden is, zijn in handen
van de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde… de VS! Een zaak, waar je
als het gebruik van witte fosfor door de VS, de reguliere westerse
media niet over hoort……

Eerder
gebruikte de VS witte fosfor bij bombardementen op het Iraakse
West-Mosul en het Syrische Raqqa, je weet wel toen o.a. de VN smeekte
bij de VS te stoppen met bombarderen, daar er ongelofelijk veel
burgerslachtoffers vielen bij die bombardementen, helaas was dat tevergeefs…… 

Tegelijkertijd durft men in die westerse media en politiek wel een grote bek op te zetten over de Russen en het
reguliere Syrische leger, die telkens wel stoppen met bombarderen als
er veel burgerslachtoffers dreigen te vallen, zoals 2 maanden voor de
inname van Oost-Aleppo, een zaak die ‘ook al’ nooit werd gemeld door
de reguliere westerse (massa-) media………… 

Hetzelfde geldt voor de ‘door het reguliere Syrische leger gepleegde gifgasaanvallen’, ondanks dat al lang duidelijk is dat die aanvallen werden uitgevoerd door de zogenaamde gematigde rebellen (gesteund met ons belastinggeld), die NB met medeweten (en zonder protest) van het westen beschikken over gifgassen als chlorine en sarin, blijft men Syrië beschuldigen…….. 

Deze terreurgroepen, want dat zijn het, pleegden deze vreselijke aanslagen met de opzet deze in de schoenen van het Syrische bewind te schuiven, een false flag operatie noemt men dat……. Het is ronduit een schande dat dit gelukt is, ‘met dank’ aan de reguliere westerse media, westerse geheime diensten, het Syrisch Observatorium voor Mensenrechten (SOHR >> een propaganda orgaan van de ‘gematigde rebellen…) en een groot deel van de westerse politici……

US
Uses Banned White Phosphorus Bombs in Syrian City for the Fourth Time
in Two Months

The
International Committee of the Red Cross has stated that “employing
asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids,
materials or devices is listed in the Statute of the International
Criminal Court as a war crime.”

by Whitney
Webb

November
06th, 2018

By Whitney
Webb

DEIR
EZ ZOR, SYRIA – The
U.S.-led coalition in Syria has been accused of using white
phosphorus incendiary munitions for the fourth time since
mid-September.  White phosphorus is banned
internationally when
used in areas with civilian populations.

Syrian
state news agency SANA reported on
a bombing conducted by the U.S.-led coalition that had targeted the
small city of Hajin in Syria’s Eastern Deir Ez-Zor province over
the weekend. The bombing, allegedly intended to target Daesh (ISIS)
terrorists who control the city, killed fifteen civilians – among
them women and children – and injured scores more. Civil sources
cited by SANA reported
that white phosphorus bombs had been used, which – in addition to
resulting in several civilian deaths and injuries — caused massive
property damage due to the fires resulting from the use of the banned
substance.

White
phosphorus is well-known for igniting
spontaneously in
the presence of oxygen and its use frequently results in
post-explosion fires that can burn for hours, as well as painful
chemical burns for those who come in contact with the substance,
which can stick to hair and clothing. The International Committee of
the Red Cross has
stated that
“employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all
analogous liquids, materials or devices is listed in the Statute of
the International Criminal Court as a war crime.”

As
a result of the extreme damage it can cause, Protocol III of the 1980
Convention on Conventional Weapons prohibits the use of the chemical
weapon in areas populated by civilians. However, the United States
is not
a signatory of
Protocol III.

The
recent alleged bombing of a Syrian town with white phosphorus by
munitions is the fourth time the U.S.-led coalition has been accused
of using the banned substance in the village of Hajin just since
September. On Oct. 29, and a few weeks prior on Oct. 13, local
sources reported
the use of white phosphorus by coalition jets in Hajin. A month
prior, on Sept. 10, Russia’s military mission in Syria also
accused the
U.S. coalition of using white phosphorus munitions in the city of
Hajin.

The
prior bombings were the result of an
effort of
by the United States’ military’s proxy in Syria, the Syrian
Democratic Forces (SDF), to take the city of Hajin from Daesh.
However, the SDF suspended its
campaign to take Hajin at the end of October, three days before this
most recent bombing. Notably, Hajin is the site of an
important Syrian oil refinery,
making it an area of interest to the U.S.-led coalition, which is
currently occupying 30% of Syria as well as the areas containing
the vast
majority of
the country’s oil resources.

Watch
| US Coalition uses white phosphorus in Deir ez-Zor

Seeking
Justification for War Crimes

Unfortunately,
the U.S.-led coalition has been using white phosphorus in combat
operations long before September. In fact, the use of white
phosphorus had become so commonplace that a New Zealand general that
worked with the coalition openly
admitted to
its use in Iraq’s Mosul in an interview with NPR.
The coalition also used the banned munitions in its efforts to take
the Syrian city of Raqqa from Daesh in June of last year.

Those
two offenses, which took place in areas that were densely populated
by civilians, prompted
groups like
Human Rights Watch (HRW) to slam the U.S.-led coalition for putting
civilians in Raqqa and Mosul at unnecessary risk.

“No
matter how white phosphorus is used, it poses a high risk of horrific
and long-lasting harm in crowded cities like [Syria’s] Raqqa and
[Iraq’s] Mosul and any other areas with concentrations of
civilians,” Steve Goose, the arms director at the HRW, had stated
last June.

At
the time, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition claimed that
the U.S. military only used white phosphorus in “accordance with
the law of armed conflict” and that the munitions were only “used
for screening, obscuring, and marking in a way that fully considers
the possible incidental effects on civilians and civilian
structures.”

Thousands
of civilians died
in coalition efforts to retake Raqqa, which also destroyed an
estimated 90% of the buildings in the city. Over a year after the
operation concluded, many of the dead are still
buried under
the rubble. This past June, Amnesty International accused the
U.S. coalition of “war crimes” in its Raqqa offensive.

Top
Photo | This image from Human Rights Watch shows the alleged use
of white phosphorus by the US coalition in Syria and Iraq. Photo |
HRW

Whitney
Webb is
a staff writer for MintPress News and a contributor to Ben Swann’s
Truth in Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron
Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has also made
radio and TV appearances on RT and Sputnik. She currently lives with
her family in southern Chile.

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Zie ook: 

‘BBC weer met anti-Syrische propaganda en veel aandacht voor de geweldige Turken en hun leider Erdogan‘ (met meer berichten over gifgasgebruik)

‘VS vermoordt 40 burgers in de Syrische provincie Deir ez-Zor‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

‘Hele Syrische families in Raqqa uitgemoord door de VS‘