国際赤十字が白燐弾の対人使用を否定した件について

ガザ現地からの情報と国際赤十字の公式見解には相当な差があります。と言うのも、実地査察が（イスラエルに）拒絶されてる状況で確認のしようがない事が多いからでして、この部分は2004年のファルージャや2006年のレバノンと同じです。
そういう不確定な状況であるから「裏が取れない事は公式には言えない」と言う事で、ある意味赤十字が弱腰過ぎるとも言えるのですが…特に現時点でガザへの査察を行えない赤十字や国連の問題があります。

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さて、ガザ現地からは白燐弾に殺られたとする悲痛な声が多く出ていて、

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m50864&hd=&size=1&l=e

Spent shells prove Israeli use of white phosphorus, Gaza doctors say
Sheera Frenkel, Times

January 15, 2009
Jerusalem

Remnants of an Israeli white phosphorus shell, identified by the marking on the outer casing ― M825A1 ― have been found in the village of Sheikh Ajilin in western Gaza.

Witnesses in Gaza said that the shell was fired on January 9 and was taken indoors as evidence. They recalled seeing thick smoke and smelling a strong odour in keeping with the garlic-like smell associated with white phosphorus.

Hebrew writing on the shell casing reads "exploding smoke" ― the term the Israeli army uses for white phosphorus. Doctors who examined the shell said that it appeared to include phosphorus residue.

Residents said that they suffered burns on their feet when they walked where the shelling had taken place.

A suspected phosphorus victim was taken from Gaza across the border into Egypt yesterday. Abdul Rahman Shaer, 16, was transferred to an Egyptian hospital from Rafah. He was suffering from severe chemical burns to his face and body. Paramedics from Gaza said that doctors at the hospital were sure the chemical agent was phosphorus.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) reiterated that they would not comment on specific weaponry being used in Gaza but added that any ammunition used by the IDF was "within the scope of international law".

The Geneva Treaty of 1980 stipulates that white phosphorus should not be used as a weapon of war in civilian areas but there is no blanket ban under international law on its use as a smokescreen or for illumination.

Human Rights organisations have criticised the use of it in Gaza, saying that it was impossible to avoid exposing civilians to the chemical because Gaza is densely populated.

Israeli security officials said that Palestinians were using phosphorus weapons of their own and that a phosphorus bomb exploded in the western Negev region of Israel yesterday. It was among 14 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel. No one was injured in the attacks.

Human Rights Watch renewed its appeal to Israel to refrain from using white phosphorus shells. "This is a chemical compound that burns structures and burns people," Kenneth Roth, the executive director of the Washington-based organisation, said. "It should not be used in populated areas."

Mr Roth said that Human Rights Watch had experts in the region who had witnessed the use of phosphorus shells.

"Even if Israel might have some minor chemical variation of white phosphorus so that the thing they're using has a new name, the effect is absolutely the same," he said.

He agreed there was no ban on using the chemical to protect troops. "But it should not be used in civilian areas because there's a parallel duty to take all conceivable precautions to protect the lives of non-combatants," Mr Roth said.

それに応じる形で今回の国際赤十字の声名となったのですが、

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_on_re_eu/eu_red_cross_white_phosphorus

The International Committee of the Red Cross urged Israel to exercise "extreme caution" in using the incendiary agent, which is used to illuminate targets at night or create a smoke screen for day attacks, said Peter Herby, the head of the organization's mines-arms unit.

"In some of the strikes in Gaza it's pretty clear that phosphorus was used," Herby told The Associated Press. "But it's not very unusual to use phosphorus to create smoke or illuminate a target. We have no evidence to suggest it's being used in any other way."

「イスラエル軍が白燐弾を焼夷目的で使用した（違法な使い方をしたという）確たる証拠を我々(国際赤十字)は持ち合わせていない」、とにもかくにも「確たる証拠を我々は持ち合わせていない」と言う文脈での"no evidence"がこの公式声名が掲載された短文*1の記事に（サマリー除いて）四回も出てくるというのは尋常ならざる事態であって、
一つには「我々が詳細を知るまでは冷静にしてほしい」と言う事があり、それは反面「我々は詳細を確定できるだけの証拠を未だ持っていない」と言う事でもある。と言う風に思いますが。

…こういうカオス的な状況で「××である」「△△はありえない」と個別の報道を用いて断定調で記述するのは非常に危険で、そういう意味で件のブログは相変わらず乱暴かつ危険な真似やってるよ…シラネ。と言う見解しか持てない。
現状は不確定要素が多く、近年白燐弾が悪用された前例が出ている以上は軍事性善説に立つことは思考と想像力の放棄でしかないとは思いますけど…まぁ、あのブログの主や取り巻きのお友達自体が軍事性善説と言うか、軍・政府の無謬の原則にしか立てない非常に狭苦しいイデオロギーの呪縛に縛られてるのは確実ですが。

*1:こっちは引用一部ですが、状況解説含んで8段落と言うのは短いです