Israel confirmed that it used white phosphorous bombs during the Lebanon war. Ha’aretz this week quoted Cabinet minister Jacob Edery as telling a lawmaker that Israeli forces fired an unspecified number of white phosphorous shells at Hezbollah targets during the war.
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