I'm a 31 year old American expat living in Oslo, Norway, with my bulldog, Ada, and my husband, Johannes. My interests include interaction design, especially information architecture, philosophy of mind and ethics, cognitive psychology, sociobiology, feminism, yoga, fat acceptance, knitting, pottery, and cooking.I guess this is what they mean by surgical strikes.
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DIME weapons contain tungsten, which, in addition to providing the smaller but much more intense blast radius that’s in demand now due to the trend toward warfare in more densely populated areas, is also a known carcinogen.
Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse, the two Norwegian doctors who came back from Gaza yesterday, reported seeing dismemberments of the kind caused by these weapons. Gilbert expressed concern that Gaza is being used as a test lab for new weapons. At a press conference at Gardermoen earlier today, he said, “We’re not thin-skinned when it comes to war injuries, but these amputations are really extremely horrifying, and unsurvivable for many of the patients”.
2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict: Casulaties and Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Casualties are interesting links.