By Saed Bannoura
IMEMC & Agencies:The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported Friday that eight months after the Israeli war ended, several birth defect cases were reported among the Gaza Strip newborns.
Dr. Mowaiya Hassanen, director of the Emergency department at the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, stated that several newborn babies have heart defects and abnormalities.
He said that such cases are caused by Israel’s use of illegal munitions against the civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Dr. Hassanen further said that five cases appeared after the war, and that illegal weapons were used by Israel in several areas in the coastal region, especially in Al Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza, Izbit Abed-Rabbo, and the Gaza valley, the Maan News Agency reported.
He said that several international researchers and specialists from France and Italy took samples of the mentions used by the Israeli army in Gaza, and found that the army used white phosphorous, and Dense Inert Metal Explosive which could cause biological defects on fetuses, Maan added.
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