Section 1: Poison Gas Attacks

1. Video clip of gas victims suffering in the hospital: Excerpt from Gaza Strip, a documentary by James Longley
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2. Interviews, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, March - April 2001 - From: Selected Interviews, recorded for the documentary film Gaza Strip by James Longley, transcripts: Regarding the use of an unidentified gas by the Israeli Defense Forces During the week of February 12, 2001 in the Khan Younis Refugee Camp: http://www.littleredbutton.com/gas_interviews/interviews.pdf

3. February 12, 2001: Statements by Dr. Yasser Sheikh Ali, Nasser Hospital, and Dr. Salakh Shami, Amal Hospital, http://www.littleredbutton.com/gas_interviews/interviews.pdf

3. February 13, 2001: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Weekly Report, Feb. 8 - 14, 2001, http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/15-02-2001.htm

4. February 14, 2001: Deutsche Presse-Agentur, February 14, 2001

5. February 15, 2001: CNN Asia: Arafat accuses Israel of using poison gas, February 16, 2001 http://asia.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/02/15/arafat.ga

6. February 18, 2001: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Weekly Report, Feb. 15 - 21, 2001, http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/22-02-2001.htm

7. State of Palestine, Ministry of Health, Health Information Center, June 23, 2001: Ministry Of Health Calls Upon The International Community To Save International Protection For The Palestinian People http://www.moh3.com/update%5Cjune2002%5Cfile023.html

8. March 2, 2001: Palestinian Center for Human Rights Weekly Report, March 1 - 7, 2001 (contains typographical error incorrectly listing incident as occurring "Friday, February 22") http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/07-03-2001.htm

9. March 26, 2001: Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report, March 22 - 29, 2001, http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/29-03-2001.htm

10. March 30, 2001: Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report, March 29 - April 4, 2001, http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/05-04-2001.htm

11. April 5, 2001: Vale of tears: Tear or poison gas? By Jonathan Cook, in the West Bank, investigates evidence of a new war crime Al-Ahram Weekly On-line, 5 - 11 April 2001, Issue No.528 http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/528/re3.htm

12. Symptoms: See Symptoms: The Israeli Poison Gas Attacks

13. Tareg Bey, chemical weapons expert: Gas Attack/What Was It?/News Bites, Michael Miner, Chicago Reader, August 23, 2002  Reader Archive--Article: 2002/020823/HOTTYPE

14. James Longley quote: Selected Interviews, recorded for the documentary film Gaza Strip
http://www.littleredbutton.com/gas_interviews/interviews.pdf

15. October 9, 2003: What gas is Israel using?, by Jennifer Loewenstein and Angela Gaff, Electronic Intifada, 10/9/2003 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1796.shtml

16. October 11, 2003: Israeli invasion of Gaza refugee camps leave 7 dead and 65 injured meanwhile strict lock down of Palestinian territories continues, Palestine Monitor, 10/11/2003 http://www.palestinemonitor.org/updates/invasion_of_rafah.htm

17. October 11, 2003: Eyewitness account of the invasion of Rafah, by Laura Gordon, International Middle East Media Center, 10/14/2003 http://www.imemc.org/opinion/october/laura-gordon.htm

18. June 11, 2004: Sharon Praised While Wall Construction Continues, Gush Shalom, 6/11/2004 http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0406/S00152.htm

NOTE: For additional reporting and references regarding these attacks, please see:
The Israeli Poison Gas Attacks of 2001: A Preliminary Investigation, James Brooks , VTJP http://www.vtjp.org/report/The_Israeli_Poison_Gas_Attacks_Project.htm
and:
Dispersing Demonstrations--Or Chemical Warfare?, James Brooks, July 12, Electronic Intifada, http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2900.shtml

Section 2: Tear Gas

1. Tear Gas - Harassing Agent or Toxic Chemical Weapon?, Hu, Fine et al, Journal of the American Medical Association, August 4, 1989, Volume 262 http://www.phrusa.org/research/chemical_weapons/chemjama.html

2. Choking the Truth to Death: More CAMERA Fabrications, by Ali Abunimah, April 3, 2000 http://www.abunimah.org/features/000403camera.html

3. “LET THEM SUFFOCATE”: Police Brutality during House Demolition in Upper Galilee Village of al-Bea’neh, February 25, 2004, Arab Association for Human Rights, http://www.arabhra.org

Additional Threats:

Israel's poisonous aerial spraying of Negev crops illegal, endangers health of Bedouin villagers, Press Release, Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA), 6 July 2004 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2871.shtml

Dimona’s Buried Nuclear Waste Spreads Cancer and Sterility in Southern Hebron and Negev, International Press Center, July 6, 2004 http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_07/032.html

Dimona Reactor… a Mystery Threatening the Middle East, International Press Center, September 18, 2003 http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2003/2003-09/062.html

Additional Reading:

The Jews of Iraq, by Naeim Giladi, The Link, April-May, 1998, American Middle East Update
http://www.ameu.org/uploads/vol31_issue2_1998.pdf

Traces of poison, by Salman Abu-Sitta, Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 27 Feb. - 5 March 2003
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/627/focus.htm

Israeli WMD - Israel's Weapons of Mass Destruction, by Neil Sammonds, ZNet, 10/11/2002
http://communication.ucsd.edu/911/massdestruction.html

Israel's Anti-Civilian Weapons by John F. Mahoney, January-March 2001
http://www.ameu.org/uploads/vol34_issue1_2001.pdf

Dispersing Demonstrations--Or Chemical Warfare?, James Brooks, July 12, Electronic Intifada, http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2900.shtml

The Israeli Poison Gas Attacks of 2001: A Preliminary Investigation, James Brooks, http://www.vtjp.org/report/The_Israeli_Poison_Gas_Attacks_Project.htm