26-11-2011, 05:05 PM
an article describing the darts being used from...
http://www.orwelltoday.com/jfkdart.shtml
Deadly darts kill Palestinian family (3,000 inch-long nails with fins). Electronic Telegraph, Aug 30, 2002
Four Palestinians from the same family (mother 55, sons 23 and 17, and nephew 20) were killed by tiny metal darts - which the military call "flechettes". Three thousand of these darts, like an inch-long nail with fins at one end, are contained in one shell that bursts in the air. The flechette is not a banned weapon, but it is not used by NATO forces... Two other family members were critically wounded. Doctors at the hospital in Gaza showed X-rays of the darts embedded in the chest of one of the survivors, a 16 yr old. He is expected to live even though the Israeli army, according to the hospital doctors, prevented ambulances reaching him for an hour... The Israeli mililtary has assured foreign governments that the weapon is employed only when there is clear evidence that the target is armed men... The soldiers should not have been suprised to see a family under the fig trees. There is a hut, a water butt, cooking equipment and oil lamps, in addition to bedding , and a family car... The family had been living there for two months, ever since the fruit season started. "They live in Jabalya camp, but this is their land, and they have to bring the figs and grapes to market by dawn, so they sleep there" said a neighbouring chicken farmer... Their camp was several hundred yards outside the free-fire zone that the Israeli army has created and there is no line of sight or fire from the orchard to the houses of the Israeli settlers the army is concerned about protecting... The Israeli defence minister said he regretted the deaths of innocent Palestinians
http://www.orwelltoday.com/jfkdart.shtml
Deadly darts kill Palestinian family (3,000 inch-long nails with fins). Electronic Telegraph, Aug 30, 2002
Four Palestinians from the same family (mother 55, sons 23 and 17, and nephew 20) were killed by tiny metal darts - which the military call "flechettes". Three thousand of these darts, like an inch-long nail with fins at one end, are contained in one shell that bursts in the air. The flechette is not a banned weapon, but it is not used by NATO forces... Two other family members were critically wounded. Doctors at the hospital in Gaza showed X-rays of the darts embedded in the chest of one of the survivors, a 16 yr old. He is expected to live even though the Israeli army, according to the hospital doctors, prevented ambulances reaching him for an hour... The Israeli mililtary has assured foreign governments that the weapon is employed only when there is clear evidence that the target is armed men... The soldiers should not have been suprised to see a family under the fig trees. There is a hut, a water butt, cooking equipment and oil lamps, in addition to bedding , and a family car... The family had been living there for two months, ever since the fruit season started. "They live in Jabalya camp, but this is their land, and they have to bring the figs and grapes to market by dawn, so they sleep there" said a neighbouring chicken farmer... Their camp was several hundred yards outside the free-fire zone that the Israeli army has created and there is no line of sight or fire from the orchard to the houses of the Israeli settlers the army is concerned about protecting... The Israeli defence minister said he regretted the deaths of innocent Palestinians