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Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024): Colm Burke: ...phosphorous. When a person is hit by white phosphorous, it burns not just the skin but right into the bone. Likewise, Israel used cluster munitions. Cluster munitions are the same as what the IRA used in Northern Ireland. If a cluster munition explodes over a playing field, it will probably hit every person in every part of that playing field. After 2009, the international community...
Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023): Colm Burke: ...more than 20 days. Some 1,440 people were killed, 350 of whom were children. White phosphorous, which burns not only the skin but right into the bone, was used. Cluster munitions, similar to an IRA nail bomb, were used. There was no reprimand from the international community. That was 14 years ago and nothing has changed since. When will we see the stopping of bombing? The last...

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