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 OVERVIEW:
Israel's
Use of Chemical Weapons
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Sister,
age 11, hospitalized for 5 days: “I was sitting here – they
started shooting and my leg seized up. And I got a headache – I started
throwing up and getting a burning sensation – the next thing I knew I was
in the hospital…Where it used to hurt, now I have spots.” |
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Ali,
age 19: “They shot a gas canister..I smelled a perfume smell...I
went back and started having an unbearable headache. I told my mother. And she
took me down to the street. And then I knew no more. I only woke up on the third
day. In the hospital. Only after the third day.” |
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Dr.
Yasser Sheikh, Nasser Hospital, March 24. 2001: “..within the space
of an hour, about 50 gas inhalation cases arrived..their symptoms were ..severe
excretions of fluids, extreme difficulty in breathing, recurrent convulsions...didn’t
respond to [tear gas] treatments...most people continued to complain of recurring
symptoms – strange aches in the joints, various blotches on the skin, chest
pains, continuous headaches...we still have 10 cases who we would like to send
abroad for treatment.” |
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Ibrahim,
age 14: “I get these conditions: My whole body will start shivering
and shaking. They ask me, ‘What’s the matter?’ But I don’t
know – my whole body is shaking and I can’t stop it. They would give
me sedatives and they would fan me because my chest was constricted – and
even now I feel a swelling in my chest because of breathing the gas.” |
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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