'Israel' wages biological warfare against Palestinians in 1948
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The Israeli occupation has gone far and beyond to uproot the Palestinian people from their homeland. But has it gone as far as using biological weapons against the Palestinian people to achieve its aspirations?
The Israeli occupation committed various atrocities against the Palestinian people before the establishment of the Israeli entity in 1948, but it was only now revealed that the occupation carried out campaigns of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in 1947 and 1948 using biological and bacteriological warfare, according to Israeli historians.
The details of "Israel's" secret use of biological weapons and poison against Palestinians during the 1947/48 ethnic cleansing campaign have been revealed in a recent article titled "'Cast Thy Bread': Israeli Biological Warfare during the 1948 War" by historians Benny Morris and Benjamin Kedar and published by Middle Eastern Studies.
According to Haaretz, the article is a rarity because it was researched and published against the wishes of the Israeli security establishment, which has tried for years to block any embarrassing historical documents that expose war crimes against Arabs, such as murdering prisoners, ethnic cleansing, and destroying villages. Moreover, the article is based on original documents obtained from the Israeli occupation's national archive.
Scientists and battlefield units alike joined forces, the article said, to carry out campaigns aimed at killing Palestinians by poisoning their water sources, such as wells, in addition to spreading typhoid in Palestinian villages. The typhoid bacteria was also used by "Tel Aviv" against the Egyptian and Jordanian armies in a bid to weaken them and force them to retreat.
According to historians, the systemic campaign of biological warfare was approved by the founder of "Israel" and the occupation regime's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
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"Israel" used poison in various ways, one of which cited by the article includes sending typhoid in bottles to the southern front via Israeli occupation forces. The villages mentioned in the article include Akka and Al-Jalil, which goes with documents from the British, Palestinians, Egyptians, and the Red Cross recording dozens of cases of poisoning and severe illness among local residents.
The Israeli occupation, right after its declaration as a colonialist arm usurping the state of Palestine in May 1948, used the same methods in Gaza, sending Israeli soldiers who posed as Palestinians to the strip with tubes containing typhoid on their person with the aim of poisoning the local water supply.
Despite a lot of evidence pointing to the Israeli occupation's use of biological weapons, and "Tel Aviv" getting caught red-handed on various occasions, the occupation is yet to admit to its usage of biological warfare.
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The Israeli security establishment has for decades been trying to cover up its tracks of violations of international law against Palestinians, blocking any historical documents exposing its war crimes, such as ethnic cleansing, from ever making it into the hands of the public.
And despite the mountains of evidence stacked against the Israeli occupation, "Israel" was never sanctioned or had war declared against it by the West that used the pretexts of weapons of mass destruction and biological weapons to invade Iraq - all due to "Tel Aviv" being a class ally to the United States and its friends in Europe.
It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation has refused on numerous occasions to commit to the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons in international armed warfare, and though it signed the Geneva Convention, the Knesset has never ratified the document.
