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Originally Posted by Firebot
White phosphorous has been used in multiple wars, including past Lebanon incursions. Nothing new unfortunately. White phosphorous and cluster bombs are pointed to with outrage a lot whenever used due to its indiscriminate attribute that impacts civilians, but when the main players also use it, it rarely gets anywhere, as opendoor pointed to recently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munition |
It's one of those things that are kinda accepted in various use cases, but still pretty much universally seen as not something to be used over populated places due to the risk of in-discriminant civilian harm. The way Israel used it is not one of those generally accepted cases.