Maine Owl

DR. MOUSSA EL-HADDAD (Democracy Now! 1-15-09): I could see cluster bombs being fired this morning, and the phosphorus bombs now are used freely on the civilians.

CHRISTOPHER GUNNESS (Democracy Now! 1-15-09): Well, this morning, there were three rounds of white phosphorus which landed in our compound in Gaza. That set ablaze the main warehouse and the big workshop we have there for vehicles. At the time, there were 700, also, people displaced from the fighting. There were full fuel tankers there. The Israeli army have been given all the coordinates of all our facilities, including this one. They also knew that there were fuel tankers laden with fuel in the compound, and they would have known that there were hundreds of people who had taken refuge.

JENNY LINNEL (KPFA Flashpoints 1-15-09): [In a neighborhood of Rafa] We've had air missile strikes every single day, .... Many homes were destroyed ... literally thousands of homes were flattened. ... [Near Han Yunes] There was an attack with some very unusual weaponry, the white phosphor. ... Can you imagine this civilian neighborhood being attacked, not just with missiles, but with white phosphor missiles that burn anything that comes in contact. ...

DR. MOUSSA EL-HADDAD (Democracy Now! 1-15-09): But let me just add a comment to what Mr. Ehud Olmert said, that he apologized, that it was a mistake. If that was one mistake?and I tell you right now on the air?that they have committed hundreds of mistakes during the last three weeks. You know, what about all these apartment buildings that only civilians occupy? Children and families are trapped in elevators and under the stairs. Children and women bleeding in the streets, and the Israeli Army tanks are not allowing Red Cross or humanitarian aid to go and help them. The ambulances are not allowed to go in. They bleed for hours. And we can hear them on the radio asking for help and somebody to come and help them and take them. Dead bodies are in the streets down in our area in the southwest of Gaza. It?s?I?ll tell you, this is a disaster on humans. This is a human disaster in the twenty-first century. And everybody is looking.