Israel's Use of Chemical Weapons

OVERVIEW:
Israel's Use of Chemical Weapons

Israeli Gas Attacks, February - March 2001 (1-4)	Nerve Gas Poisoning (5-24)
Terms used by victims, doctors, and eyewitnesses to describe symptoms of the victims of Israeli poison gas attacks in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, February - March, 2001:	General and medical terms used to describe the symptoms of organophosphate nerve gas poisoning:
difficulty breathing	difficulty breathing
severe headaches	severe headaches
pin-point pupils	miosis ('pin-point' constricted pupils)
vomiting, vomiting blood	vomiting
stomach, digestive cramps	stomach cramps
flushing	flushing
fever	fever
constricting sensation	constricting sensation
severe excretions of fluids	involuntary urination and defecation
extreme excitation	extreme excitation
neuorlogical manifestations	confusion
convulsions	convulsions
nervous breakdown	psychosis
unconsciousness	unconsciousness
anxiety	anxiety
paralysis	paralysis
burning pain in eyes and chest	ocular (eye) and chest pain
spasms	spasms
body stiffens or goes into rigid arc position	body stiffens or "curls up"
episodes of extreme muscle relaxation	flaccid paralysis
nearly complete paralysis of the limbs	nearly complete paralysis of the limbs
behavioral distresses	behavioral disorders
leg cramps	leg cramps
'my body is trying to kill me'	global pain
chest constriction, chest pains, burning in chest	feeling of tight bands around the chest
"I can't see"	dim vision
'couldn't sleep'	insomnia
shivering	shivering
shaking	shaking
dizziness	dizziness
weakness, fatigue	weakness, fatigue
bones ache, joint pain	N/A
severe itching	N/A
dark brown skin blotches	N/A

For more information, see James Longley's Interviews with gas victims and medical personnel during the making of Gaza Strip, and The Israeli Poison Gas Attacks: Symptoms

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Intro

1. 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

2. Free Speech Video Interview: Filmaker James Longley and his doucmentary Gaza Strip Note: The film identifies the doctor as "Dr. Helen Bruzau Médecins Sans Frontières", but Jonathan Cook, in Vale of Tears quotes "Helen Brisco of Médecins Sans Frontières", who is apparently a doctor. An inquiry has been submitted to Médecins Sans Frontières. http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/ramfiles/eyes_palestine_longly.ram

3. Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, February 15 - 21, 2001, http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/22-02-2001.htm

4) Vale of tears: Tear or poison gas? by Jonathan Cook, Al-Ahram Weekly On-line, 5 - 11 April 2001, Issue No.528 http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/528/re3.htm

5) Health Aspects of Chemical and Biological Weapons: Annex 3: Chemical Agents, World Health Organization http://www.who.int/emc/pdfs/DraftAnnex3WS.pdf

6) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Fact Sheet, Chemical Weapons I, May 1984, Julian Perry Robinson and Jozef Goldblat http://projects.sipri.se/cbw/research/factsheet-1984.html

7) Chemical Warfare Experience In Iran/Iraq War, Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/irp/gulf/intel/970129/123096_8061115_mic_0001.html

8) Long-Term Health Effects of Nerve Agents and Mustard, Chapter 8, Frederick R. Sidell, M.D. and Charles G. Hurst, M.D. http://www.nbc-med.org/SiteContent/HomePage/WhatsNew/MedAspects/Ch-8electrv699.pdf

9) Chemical Agent Fact Sheet: Tabun - GA Nerve Agent (Dimethylphosphoramido-cyanidate)
http://www.sbccom.army.mil/services/edu/tabun.htm

10) Nerve Agents, G-series: Tabun, Sarin, Soman: Article Excerpt by: Jeffrey L Arnold, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, eMedicine Web site
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/byname/cbrne---nerve-agents-g-series--tabun-sarin-soman.htm

11) Nerve Agents, V-series: Ve, Vg, Vm, Vx, Fernando L Benitez, MD, Larissa I Velez-Daubon, MD, eMedicine Web site
http://emedicine.com/emerg/topic899.htm

12) Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Chapter 8: Longterm Effects of Nerve Gas Agents and Mustard, Frederick R. Sidell, MD, Charles G. Hurst, MD
http://www.nbc-med.org/SiteContent/HomePage/WhatsNew/MedAspects/Ch-8electrv699.pdf

13) Nerve Agent Exposure, Scott Moses, MD, Family Practice Notebook
http://www.fpnotebook.com/ER117.htm

14) Nerve Agent: GA (Tabun), CBWInfo.com
http://www.cbwinfo.com/GA.shtml

15) Chronic neurobehavioral effects of Tokyo subway sarin poisoning in relation to posttraumatic stress disorder, Kazuhito Yokoyama, Environmental Health, July-August, 1998
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0907/n4_v53/21017749/p1/article.jhtml

16) Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB), National Library of Medicine, TOXNET, sarin (methylfluorphosphorsaeureisopropylester), Registry Numbers: 107-44-8
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

17) Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB), National Library of Medicine, TOXNET, soman (pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate), Registry Numbers: 96-64-0
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

18) Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB), National Library of Medicine, TOXNET, VX, Registry Numbers: 50782-69-9
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

19) Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB), National Library of Medicine, TOXNET, METHYL PHOSPHONIC ACID, Registry Numbers: 993-13-5
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

20) Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB), National Library of Medicine, TOXNET, DPP, Registry Numbers: 55-91-4
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

21) Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB), National Library of Medicine, TOXNET, Acephate, Registry Numbers: 30560-19-1
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

(22) Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB), National Library of Medicine, TOXNET, tabun (dimethylamidoethoxyphosphoryl cyanide ), Registry Numbers: 77-81-6
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

23) Chemical and Biological Warfare, ThinkQuest, Inc.
http://library.thinkquest.org/27393/dreamwvr/agents/tabun.htm

24) eMedicine Journal, January 11 2002, Volume 3, Number 1 http://emedicine.com/emerg/topic899.htm

Gaza Strip, a documentary by James Longley, February, 2002 http://www.littleredbutton.com/gaza