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[div id="article-header"] [div id="main-article-info"] [h1]Video shows proof of phosphorus bombs in Gaza[/h1] [h2 id="stand-first" class="stand-first-alone"]Gaza doctors detail burns to entire victims' bodies from chemical that is forbidden to be used as a weapon[/h2] [/div] [/div][!-- end article-header --] [ul class="article-attributes no-pic"][li class="byline"] [a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/richardnortontaylor" name="&lid=(contentTypeByline)(Richard Norton-Taylor)&lpos=(contentTypeByline)(1)"]Richard Norton-Taylor[/a]
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Warning: contains graphic footage of war injuries [a name="&lid=(inBodyVideo)(Link to this video)&lpos=(inBodyVideo)(1)" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jan/16/gaza-israel-khan-yunis-white-phosphorus"]Link to this video[/a] [/span] [/span] Video showing injuries consistent with the use of white phosphorus shells has been filmed inside hospitals treating Palestinian wounded in [a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gaza"]Gaza[/a] City.[/p]Contact with the shell remnants causes severe burns, sometimes burning the skin to the bone, consistent with descriptions by Ahmed Almi, an Egyptian doctor at the al-Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.[/p]Almi said the entire body of one victim was burned within an hour. It was the first time he had seen the effects of what he called a "chemical weapon".[/p]The Israeli military has denied using white phosphorus during the assault on Gaza, but aid agencies say they have no doubt it has been used.[/p]"It is an absolute certainty," said Marc Garlasco, a senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch. He had seen Israeli artillery fire white phosphorus shells at Gaza City, Garlasco said.[/p]The shells burst in the air, billowing white smoke before dropping the phosphorus shell.[/p]The use of white phosphorus as a weapon – as opposed to its use as an obscurant and infrared blocking smoke screen – is banned by the UN's third convention on conventional weapons[/p]
