Volunteer doctors serving in Gaza say that they are finding tungsten micro-cubes of metal, designed to travel at high speeds across a wide area from a missile strike, in the wounds of bombing victims – and in others, no shrapnel is left behind but residues of highly toxic heavy metals remain in victims’ systems to poison them and cause organ failure. Israeli arms manufacturers then market these weapons as ‘battle proven’:
This article was posted today; That famous video of the doctor who nearly broke down in tears during a hearing (in the UK?) who spoke about cube shaped shrapnels in a dead child (soon to be dead child?) he was operating on (doing an autopsy?) mentioned exactly this; is this news site only late to this info, or are all news media arriving at this situation this late?
There was this article in the Guardian from last summer too: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/israeli-weapons-shrapnel-children-gaza-injured
Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon from California, worked at the European hospital in southern Gaza in April.
“About half of the injuries I took care of were in young kids. We saw a lot of so-called splinter injuries that were very, very small to the point that you easily missed them while examining a patient. Much, much smaller than anything I’ve seen before but they caused tremendous damage on the inside,” he said.
Sanjay Adusumilli, an Australian surgeon who worked at the al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza in April, recovered shrapnel made up of small metal cubes about three millimetres wide while operating on a young boy. He described wounds from fragmentation weapons distinguished by the shards of shrapnel destroying bone and organs while leaving just a scratch on the skin.
The “tungsten micro-cube shrapnel” is evergreen for whatever reason, first time I heard it mentioned was probably >15 years ago. I’ve always assumed some stuff is reported ahead of actual testing for various reasons (gauging public reaction? Spying on how information disseminated?) and some is just getting iterated on, inherently has poor results, or just happens to be the latest prototypes on hand when they resume mass physical violence.
is this really something that comes up frequently?
idk, seems like a weapon specifically designed to obfuscate the body’s natural response to damage in order to generally increase mortality is 101% a gigantic war crime under any reasonable conventions.
Yeah here’s Wired covering it in 2009, alluding to 2006 reporting on dense inert metal explosives (DIME):
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