Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Gaza: Blind and burnt, Mahmoud, 14, young victim of banned white phosphorus shelling...


Israel's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip may be over but Mahmoud Mattar, 14, will not be able to sense the quiet that has descended on his home town of Jabalya. 

Blinded in both eyes, with third-degree burns over much of his torso, Mahmoud lies unconscious in the Sheikh Zayid Hospital on the outskirts of Cairo. He has said little since January 6, when an Israeli attack on his village in northern Gaza left him nearly dead on the street outside his mosque. Doctors say that he will never see again — and that the burns on his body were caused by white phosphorus, a controversial incendiary weapon that Israel originally denied using. More...

See also:

  1. Video shows proof of phosphorus bombs in Gaza...
  2. More than 1000 people killed in Gaza, nearly a third are children.
  3. Michael Heart and Song for Gaza...
  4. This is what's happening in Gaza...
  5. Gaza attacks: Five sisters killed in their sleep...

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