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February
18, 2001: Israeli forces fired several “poison gas”
canisters into the Khan Younis refugee camp.
Palestinian civilians, mostly children and women, suffered from suffocation and
spasms due to inhaling the gas. (1)
238 Palestinians affected
by poison gas attacks between February 12 and February 20. Twenty-seven of the
victims still hospitalized as of February 22 - Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
(2)
The Palestine Ministry of
Health reported: “55 children were exposed to toxic gas thrown by the Israeli
forces at citizens in Khan Younis” during February 2001. (3)
James Longley: “One
boy, who had inhaled a large amount of the gas in question, suffered in the hospital
for an entire month with recurrent convulsions.” (4)
March
2, 2001: Israeli forces operating in the West Bank village of
Al-Bireh fired “a highly effective black gas similar to the one used in
Khan Yunis three weeks ago. Among the wounded were four medical personnel of the
Palestinian Medical Relief Committees.” (5)
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23
year-old woman, Khan Younis: “I saw a black cloud of smoke...I
didn’t feel anything at the time…After about 15 minutes I started
throwing up....I went [into the hospital] on the 13th and stayed ‘til the
17th…if I stood up I would fall to the ground…even today I still feel
a tightness in my chest, and a cough.” |
Gas
Attacks in Khan Younis, February 2001: Interviews with victims and medical personnel
by James Longley, producer of Gaza
Strip. For full text and photos, see Interviews |
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