It causes skin to melt away from the bone and can break down a victim's jawbone, but white phosphorus - known in Vietnam as Willie Pete - is still used by sections of the world's military.

Beirut, Lebanon – Israel has intensively used white phosphorus on a strip in southern Lebanon that matches a zone its army ...

Human Rights Watch said it verified videos taken in Lebanon on 10 October and Gaza on 11 October showing "multiple airbursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two ...

Israeli forces possess safer alternatives, such as M150 artillery rounds, which produce screening smoke without the use of ...

Iran's UN envoy, Amir Saeid Iravani, has condemned Israel for using white phosphorus munitions in its wars against Gaza and ...

MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international rights organization, accused Israel of using white phosphorus during its military operations in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip in ...

Scientists are aiming to tackle a global shortage of phosphorus by extracting it from human urine as part of a new study. The study will see researchers at the University of Surrey collect 15 ...

Amir Saeid Iravani on Thursday asserted that such actions amount to a war crime, urging the Organization for the Prohibition ...

White phosphorus is a wax-like substance that burns at 800C and ignites on contact with oxygen, creating bright plumes of smoke. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned the chemical is "notorious for ...

Earlier, Human Rights Watch, an international rights organization, accused Israel of using white phosphorus munitions during its military operations in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip CAIRO ...