“We are helping the Palestinian doctors to do their work – said Bjorjlid – but we are also taking pictures, taking notes and preserving test tubes to analyze when we are outside Gaza using the appropriate equipment; many people that have been taken to hospital have suffered amputations of arms, as if they were cut in one blow, something that cannot be caused by conventional explosives; it is as if arms and legs were detached from the rest of the body which shoes lacerations, even as it does not contain fragments, which is what one normally expects to see in wounds caused by conventional explosives”.
This type of wound, says Bjorjlid, is typical of those caused by ‘Dime’ devices, made in the USA, but as yet unclassified.
“On other bodies – said the medical doctor – we have seen such deep burns that they match those left by white phosphorous explosives; we have also heard of cases where some asphyxiating gases were used, but I have no proof of this yet”.
According to Bjorjlid, who has been in Gaza since six days ago, there remains the fact that beyond the type of weapon used, the war launched by Israel has been targeting civilians in particular:
“I am here and I see the dead and wounded with my own eyes – he said – 41% of the victims are women and minors which account for 50% of the wounded; when it will be over, Gaza will not only have to rebuild that which has been destroyed, but it will have thousands of maimed and disable people to care for”.
Source: Missionary International News Agency
