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U.S. shipped 989 munitions containers to Israel week before Gaza invasion (updated)

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Update: 4.13.09 added a video

Australian Herald
Friday 10th April, 2009

A week before Israel launched an aerial bombing campaign on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the U.S. military shipped 989 20-foot containers of munitions, each weighing 14,000 tonnes, to Israel.

In the dying days of the Bush administration, and a week before Israel launched an aerial bombing campaign, followed by a land invasion of the Gaza Strip, the U.S. military shipped 989 containers of munitions to Israel.

Each container was 20-feet long with a total estimated net weight of 14,000 tonnes. The shipment reportedly reached Israel last month at Ashod, 40 kiometres north of Gaza. The huge arsenal of munitions will replenish those expended in the Gaza War.

According to Amnesty International in the UK, the shipment included white phosphorous.

The international organization says 300 of the containers had been unloaded at Ashod in March by a German cargo ship, Wehr Elb.

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US arms shipment reaches Israel, president Obama urged to halt further exports

http://www.amnesty.org.uk
02 April 2009

The new delivery to Israel of a massive consignment of US munitions, revealed by Amnesty International today, throws into question whether President Obama will act to prevent the US fuelling further Israeli attacks against civilians that may amount to war crimes, as was perpetrated in Gaza.

According to new information received by Amnesty International, the Wehr Elbe, a German cargo ship which had been chartered and controlled by US Military Sealift Command, docked and unloaded its cargo of reportedly over 300 containers at the Israeli port of Ashdod, just 40 km north of Gaza by road. The German ship left the USA for Israel on 20 December, one week before the start of Israeli attacks on Gaza, carrying 989 containers of munitions, each of them 20 feet long with a total estimated net weight of 14,000 tons.

Brian Wood, Amnesty International’s arms control campaign manager, said:

‘Legally and morally, this US arms shipment should have been halted by the Obama administration, given the extent of the evidence showing how military equipment and munitions of this kind were recently used by the Israeli forces for war crimes.

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Update

Amnesty International calls on US to stop funding Israeli army

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April 12, 2009

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Focus on Gaza: White Phosphorous

from the archives:

Unusually Large U.S. Weapons Shipment to Israel: Are the US and Israel Planning a Broader Middle East War? by Michel Chossudovsky

U.S. arms shipment to Israel canceled due to Gaza conflict

US plans massive arms delivery to Israel

chemical weapons-white phosphorus-DU

Israel-Palestine-Gaza-Occupation

4 thoughts on “U.S. shipped 989 munitions containers to Israel week before Gaza invasion (updated)”

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  3. Why am I not surprised of the Bush administration’s farewell gift of lethal munitions to humanity, fairness and justice. It fits their consistent pattern and religious ideology, which they practiced to the very end. History is going to spit at the very mention of this abomination of administration for its repugnant lack of any sense of morality and decency in just about every thing they did. I only hope that the Obama administration will have the guts to stand for what’s right, make changes,act with courage and sense of morality that’s been missing in the US policy in the Middle East for…..always.

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