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On October 10, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry accused Israel of using ammunition with white phosphorus, prohibited by international conventions. According to the ministry, the prohibited weapons were used in the al-Karam area in the Gaza Strip.
The official claims came after the following footage from the Gaza Strip was widely shared online:
By the evening, more footage was shared from different areas:
Phosphorous ammunition is prohibited by the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Victims of War of 1949 and the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980.
