Israel Used White Phosphorus in Lebanon, Now No One Can Go Home

3 days ago by EatingOnions to c/world

Babalugats 159 points 2 days ago
  • 72,996 Palestinians killed by Israel (7 Oct 2023–14 Jun 2026, (UNRWA)
  • 46,590 Ukrainian civilians killed by Russia (24 Feb 2022–31 May 2026 (OHCHR)

According to ACLED, from 7 Oct 2023 - December 5, 2025, Israel attacked these countries (There have been many more attacks since then): (LINK)

  • Gaza and the occupied West Bank 8,332 times
  • Lebanon 1,653 times
  • Iran 379 times
  • Syria 207 times
  • Yemen 48 times
  • Qatar once
  • Tunisian waters twice, Maltese and Greek waters once each

Countries attacked by Russia since 24 Feb 2022 - Ukraine

Sanctions on Russia: 20 Sanction Packages

Sanctions on Israel by EU and HERE (harder to find any) 3 Sanction Packages

Israel war crimes in the war on Gaza. They've cut electricity, fuel, food and water to Gaza’s population and severely curtailed life-saving humanitarian aid, all of which are acts of collective punishment. The ICC has issued arrest warrants naming Israeli leaders and alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity (including starvation as a method of warfare). They have also been accused multiple times of attempting genocide. Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes - how governments respond could haunt them for years to come

I can't find any accusations of Russia using white phospherous - EDIT (thanks @Gust@piefed.social)

The two wars are different in that The war in Ukraine is a state-to-state conflict, while the one in Gaza shows an asymmetric war in the besieged enclave

FACTBOX - Ukraine and Gaza wars compared

The Israeli wars are just dirtier than anything most have seen or heard of. In the UK you are more likely to be awarded something for protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine than anything else. But protesting against the more violent, more aggressive and more illegal wars commited by Israel will likely get you arrested and possibly treated as a terrorist.

Let that sink in.

In the UK if you protest against a genocide in another country, the government have ordered the Police to arrest you.

Petition: End the prosecution of peaceful protestors in the UK)

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Gust 42 points 2 days ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65506993

Largely agree with what you wrote, but let's not whitewash russia to make isreal look bad in comparison. They have absolutely used/been using white phos munitions on Ukrainian civilians

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Babalugats 11 points 2 days ago

Edited. Thanks. Wasn't whitewashing Russia at all. I used Qwant, DDG, Google, and even asked a couple of AI bots, but couldn't find anything about Russia using it. But I never said that they didn't, because I am well aware that they commit war crimes too.

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Gust 9 points 2 days ago

Huh. Thats concerning if those kind of general searches about russian warcrimes are being suppressed. For reference, I remembered the bakhmut thing offhand so my search query for the article I linked was something super specific like "2023 bakhmut phosphorous"

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Babalugats 6 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I'll have a look through my history and see how I phrased it, but it was something like "accusations of Russia using white phospherous or illegal weapons and war crimes" in a few different ways.

ai was useless (no surprises) but thought I would see if it spat out anything different anyway. They just asked me for reference links to feed them with. Which I obviously didn't have.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point a day ago

I mean, space Karen has taken some obvious pro-rus actions. He has the money to make that happen. Not stating fact or causation, just making unkind speculation about pissant teakettle heeljerks.

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mrdown 6 points 2 days ago

Not sure where you see the whitewashing of russia there?

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Gust 18 points 2 days ago

The part where OP said there havent been any accusations of russia using white phosphorous bombs. There is proof of russia using those weapons in bakhmut in 2022, which is what I linked to.

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mrdown 10 points 2 days ago

Maybe he really didn't know that russia used it too. I still don't see strong evidence of him whitewashing Russia especially with his links about gross russian war crimes.

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merdaverse 18 points 2 days ago

Good comparison and data, but I'd like to point out that the leading stats are actually 16k civilians killed in Ukraine (and 46k injured), as per the source. While in Gaza there are 72k direct deaths and 172k injured (mostly civilians and 50% women and children)

It's disgusting how Western governments still approach one country with all possible sanctions, and the other is just business as usual (and finger wagging if we're "lucky").

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Babalugats 10 points 2 days ago

There are so many sources citing different figures, I just picked the one that is mostly used by media. Also, it is believed that the figures in Gaza are much higher than the figures that the data shows. But without proof, I didn't/couldn't link it.

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Slotos -98 points 2 days ago

Would you look at that, a wild genocide connoisseur appeared!

Go fucking extinct with your comparisons of human suffering. The only thing you prove is your own lack of morals. The only thing you achieve is total disrespect to those suffering.

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Babalugats 35 points 2 days ago

I was not comparing the wars for the wars. I was going to explain at the end, I ran out of time, but I naively thought it would be understood. I can only say what was in my head when I posted it. Or you did understand it, and approve of what's happening.

I am not (I thought obviously) condoning any war.

I'm not saying that one war is "better" or "worse" than any other war.

My main point (really, my only point) is that Starmers government compared the two and decided that one is bad and the other is good.

Despite all the atrocities that Israel do (which I was trying to accentuate in the post) - People are getting locked up as terrorists for agreeing with Palestine action.

it's fucking ridiculous

in the UK we can be arrested for protesting against a genocide.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points a day ago

that Starmers government compared the two and decided that one is bad and the other is good.

I mean, not just Starmers. Your point stands for a whole lot of governments.

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Babalugats 2 points 21 hours ago

Well, yes. But afaik Starmers is the only one that you can get arrested and have it reclassified as a terrorist action and imprisoned for lengthy sentences. Or get arrested as a terrorist. But unlikely to happen due the exact same offence if protesting a different war.

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WereHacker 34 points 2 days ago

Where is the disrespect? They just point out the moral ambiguity of the west.

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wpb 8 points 2 days ago

Nothing ambiguous about it. Insert family guy skin color swatches meme. You might be looking for the term "hypocrisy" instead.

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WereHacker 3 points 2 days ago

Some of the politicians are definitely hypocrites yeah. And racism counts for some of it as well. But mainly I think it is good ol' imperialism at work. The politicians feel they have to support Israel and they don't know what to do about the genocide, and simply ignore it. This is not an excuse. Everyone complicit needs to go to the Haag.

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MartianRecon 8 points 2 days ago

Would you look at that someone blindly defending Israel.

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WhyJiffie 2 points 2 days ago

new label..... genocide supporter. there you go!

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corbindallas 72 points 2 days ago

No one is angry enough.

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Wildmimic 43 points 2 days ago

Oh, i am and some others too, but it would take someone with an army to fucking bomb Israel back to the stone age to stop those madmen. I never thought i would say that, but if Israel vanished in a giant nuclear fireball, it would be a net positive for the world at this point.

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ryper 35 points 2 days ago

Israel disappearing would probably be a big step towards peace in the Middle East, given their tendency to start shit with their neighbors.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 5 points a day ago

I used to think "dude, why does everyone on the middle east seem to hate Israel"

Then I got a minor in history

Then I tried using it. It's embarrassing how many years there were between the two. Please don't ask

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nondescripthandle 14 points 2 days ago

I told every politician that represents my address taking AIPAC money is a nonstarter for my vote a long time ago. They didn't give a fuck. Being angry enough has nothing to do with it, they won't / don't care until supporting isn't real starts losing them money. And this blue no matter who shit some people love to throw around explicitly helps further genocide. Never vote AIPAC, no matter who.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 8 points 2 days ago

i'm compartmentalized dude.

also if you're the corbin i know, NEPHEW GET OFF THE NSFWS YOU ARE TOO YOUNG wait at least 7 years. crab jesus kid what happened to you

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idiomaddict 3 points 2 days ago

An 11 year old Corbin… High School Musical fan parents spotted.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 2 days ago

is that where my idiot brother got the name? i always thought it was after Jeremy Corbyn.

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LostCarcosan 4 points 15 hours ago

Corbin Dallas is from The Fifth Element. An amazing scifi movie from the late 1900s

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idiomaddict 2 points 2 days ago

I’d probably just want to keep believing that vs HSM, lol.

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corbindallas 2 points 2 days ago

Daddy?

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 2 days ago

i said nephew. i may be a grampa but i ain't got no kids.

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corbindallas 2 points a day ago

That u know of.. gimme yo dna

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VieuxQueb 2 points 2 days ago

I was wondering why some of my friends were not reacting, then I remembered most of them are on antidepressants. I'm starting to think too many antidepressants users out there, and many of them probably take them because they can't deal with the state of the world.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points a day ago

MAJOR DISCLAIMER THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE THIS IS MY OWN EXPERIENCE

There's that, and there are a lot of chemical imbalances that are covered up by SSRIs. I have a MTHFR (MoTHerFuckeR gene yes the capitalization is important) (dear gods I've typed that phrase so many times my autocarrot knows it) mutation, so I cannot methylize folate, so if I do not eat methylated folate (as a pill supplement), it is bad. SSRIs mask that "bad". If I take methylated folate at the right dose I am myself. If I SSRI it up, I'm a zombie. Took years to figure everything out and the right balance, and I'm still learning shit about my other defects. But it took a lot of work to get to the place where I could get off the SSRIs, and there were more than a few failed (md approved) attempts.

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ironycanal 72 points 2 days ago

Yes they permanently scar important agricultural land that may be necessary to the future of humanity for basically no reason, but asking them nicely to stop would be antisemitic.

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PattyMcB 56 points 2 days ago

Oh... so they're war criming against Lebanon exactly like they have their other enemies?

Can't really say I'm surprised

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Zier 54 points 2 days ago

Why are we bombing Iran when we should be bombing Israel instead?

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Mulligrubs 25 points 2 days ago

Because we made Israel for a reason, and it's delivering.

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mrdown 20 points 2 days ago

Because both the usa and israel are terrorist states

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Goodlucksil 7 points 2 days ago
Tap for spoiler

This is sarcasm

Say it with me, everyone:

ANTISEMITISM!

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idiomaddict 4 points 2 days ago

… Although I would not actually be surprised if a significant portion of the American population most supportive of Israel are really motivated by a desire to have a place for Jews to live so that they don’t live in the USA

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in4apenny 4 points 2 days ago

Isn't that why Israel was created out of thin fucking air to begin with? So Europe could have a place for Jews after moving them all out? Wasn't Lord Balfour (of the Balfour Declaration) a white-supremacist anti-semite?

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bold_atlas 6 points 2 days ago

Because they have nukes.

But honestly America could tank a few Israeli nukes. We need to just rip the bandaid off.

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Maggie 39 points a day ago

I hate Israel. Of all the nations I'd have thought them the most compassionate after what happened at Hitlers command. How can you do this to people. And who produced the goods/delivery system cos you're equally to blame. Sincerely hope you are judged for this

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Gates9 8 points a day ago

Don’t a lot of abused children become abusers themselves? I’m not justifying it, but it seems to that it’s the result of inter generational trauma. Not just centuries of oppression and pogroms, not just the Nazi holocaust, but a lot of Israelis came directly from places in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that were brutally oppressive.

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VindictiveJudge 10 points a day ago

Babylon 5 still being relevant, unfortunately:

Sinclair: "In order to be free, you had to learn to fight; no one questions that. But you've over-compensated. You're like abused children who have grown big enough to do the same thing to someone else... as if that will somehow balance the scales, it won't. If you let your anger cloud your judgement, it will destroy you."

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Solrac 7 points a day ago

Look up the Havara Agreement. Look up what they did in Palestine right after Palestine accepted them.

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ParlimentOfDoom 32 points 2 days ago

Again. Again again.

They keep doing this.

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TankovayaDiviziya 30 points 2 days ago

I see on social media and Reddit of Israel-apologists and obvious Hasbara accounts saying the white phosphorus are for smoke covers. Like, sure, the smoke from burning bodies of victims of white phosphorus provide smoke covers.

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ironycanal 11 points 2 days ago

Are you suggesting that Real Jews should die for lack of smoke cover from the bodies of untermench children? Do you think dead burned untermemench are worth more than a life from the master race? Antisemite!

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theacharnian 26 points 2 days ago

For Zionism being all about the "land of Israel", and wanting to build "greater Israel", why do they hate and abuse the land so much? I mean ok, they hate the people, I get that, they are fascist colonizers. But why the land? They do the same to the West Bank when they destroy centuries old olive groves, and that's in their supposed "Judaea and Samaria" that they are supposed to love so much that they want to ethnically cleanse.

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Solrac 3 points a day ago

Simple. Money. Just look at New Gaza Project

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Maeve 20 points 2 days ago

This is SOP, they do it in Palestine and Syria.

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panthera_ 16 points 2 days ago

The UN should investigate to determine if this is true.

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Mihies 28 points 2 days ago

Israel has been using it for a long time and nobody does nothing.

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panthera_ -8 points 2 days ago

If the UN investigates and determines that Israel is using white phosphorus, the UN could condemn Israel.

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MurrayL 41 points 2 days ago

The UN has officially condemned Israel well over 100 times. I doubt one more will make much difference.

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panthera_ -19 points 2 days ago

Did the US join the condemnation? If the UN determines that Israel has been using White Phosphorus in a way which violates the Geneva Convention, the US might join. Otherwise, Trump will have to explain the reason.

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zd9 11 points 2 days ago

lol what is that going to do to a fascist imperialistic madman? It's like Chuck Schumer's "strongly worded letters" to Trump

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panthera_ -11 points 2 days ago

It would be embarrassing to Israel since they deny using it against the rules of the Geneva Convention.

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nondescripthandle 6 points 2 days ago

I CONDENM THANOS!

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panthera_ -6 points 2 days ago

Perhaps if the UN confirms that Israel has been using White Phosphorus in violation of Geneva Convention rule, the Avengers could be assembled.

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Rat_in_a_hat 23 points 2 days ago

Its been reported 1000s of times for decades. Israel doesn't deny it's use either, they just lie about the purpose of it's use.

Majority of countries have signed onto international agreements to not use it during war because of how detrimental it is.

Israel uses it on civilian populations but lies about its battle use to get away with harming civilians and the growing fields that they depend on.

Edit: And to beat you to the hollow response, its been reported by the UN and the Human Rights Watch (UN Partners)

https://www.ohchr.org/...

https://www.hrw.org/...

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 2 days ago

dammit phosphorous is too good a fertilizer to waste it on war crimes what the fuck

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panthera_ -9 points 2 days ago

Have it brought to the UN Security Council for discussion.

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Rat_in_a_hat 7 points 2 days ago

Lol, dolt

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Babalugats 14 points 2 days ago

It's true, there were videos of it a few months ago. They've been using it for a long time

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panthera_ -7 points 2 days ago

A UN report would have more weight.

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phoenixz 13 points a day ago

Israel uses American-made 155-millimeter M825A1 artillery projectiles and denies deploying the substance in violation of the laws of war.

All the photo and video evidence shows they did but they're in full "nuh uhuuuhh!"

Fuck Israel

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impairedimperator 2 points a day ago

That's why they (and others) wrote the "smoke cover" loophole into international law.

They just don't clarify that the "smoke cover" happens inside of their victim's lungs, as well as other body cavities after the phosphorus burns through the skin.

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VAK 4 points 2 days ago

Welcome to North Bank

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point a day ago

"No one" isn't the genociders using the white phosphorus. It should be, but it isn't.

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