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19 January 2009 - Amnesty International delegates visiting the Gaza Strip found indisputable evidence of widespread use of white phosphorus in densely populated residential areas in Gaza City and in the north. 

"Yesterday, we saw streets and alleyways littered with evidence of the use of white phosphorus, including still burning wedges and the remnants of the shells and canisters fired by the Israeli army," said Christopher Cobb-Smith, a weapons expert who is in Gaza as part of a four-person Amnesty International fact-finding team.

NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip.

Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions

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Washington – This week, thousands of Muslims Americans and non-Muslims, stormed through the streets of the US to promote unity and to show solidarity with the Palestinian people, who have been recently subjected to massive and deadly Israeli attacks that have devastated the Gaza Strip.

On Tuesday, at the State Department, nearly a thousand people, took to the streets of Washington.

The Act Now to Stop War and Racism, or ANSWER, a coalition of hundreds of peace and justice organizations, including Muslim Students Association National, sponsored the protest. The coalition was established in 2001 to combat racism, wars, and other forms of injustice.