At 3500 degrees of temperature nothing survives. Most materials known today, including metals such as steel, iron, and aluminum, melt and vaporize at that level. That is the temperature reached by the thermal and thermobaric munitions supplied by the United States to Israel, and which the latter used in Gaza, instantly charring and making almost 3,000 Palestinians disappear.
Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally banned thermal and thermobaric weaponsoften called vacuum or aerosol pumps, capable of generating temperatures in excess of 3,500 degrees Celsius.
This is reflected in the report and investigation from the Al Jazeera site that we share below.
At dawn on August 10, 2024, Yasmin Mahani walked through the smoking ruins of the al-Tabin school in Gaza City, searching for her son Saad. She found her husband screaming, but there was no sign of Saad.
“I entered the mosque and found myself stepping on flesh and blood,” Mahani told Al Jazeera Arabic for an investigation that aired Monday. He searched hospitals and morgues for days. “We didn’t find anything from Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part.”
Mahani is one of thousands of Palestinians whose loved ones have simply disappeared during Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, which has killed more than 72,000 people.
According to the research of Al Jazeera Arabic, The Rest of the StoryCivil Defense teams in Gaza have documented 2,842 Palestinians who have “evaporated” since October 2023, leaving behind no remains other than blood spatters or small fragments of meat.
Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally banned thermal and thermobaric weaponsoften called vacuum or aerosol pumps, capable of generating temperatures in excess of 3,500 degrees Celsius.
The figure of 2,842 is not an estimate, but the result of a grim forensic count by the Gaza Civil Defense.
Spokesman Mahmoud Basal explained to Al Jazeera that the teams use an elimination method in the attacked locations. “We entered the target home and matched the known number of occupants to the recovered bodies,” Basal said.
“If a family tells us there were five people inside and we only recover three intact bodies, we treat the remaining two as ‘evaporated’ only after an exhaustive search turns up nothing more than biological traces: blood splattered on the walls or small fragments like scalps,” he added.
The chemistry of erasure
The investigation detailed how Specific chemical compositions in Israeli munitions turn human bodies into ashes in seconds.
Vasili Fatigarov, a Russian military expert, explained that thermobaric weapons not only kill, but destroy matter. Unlike conventional explosives, these weapons They disperse a cloud of fuel that, when ignited, creates a huge fireball and a vacuum effect.
“To prolong the burning time, aluminum, magnesium and titanium powders are added to the chemical mixture“explained Fatigarov. “This raises the temperature of the explosion to between 2500 and 3000 degrees Celsius [4532 a 5432 °F]”.
According to research, the intense heat is usually generated by tritonal, a mixture of TNT and aluminum powder used in bombs made in the United States such as the MK-84.
Dr. Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, explained the biological impact of that extreme heat on the human body, which is made up of approximately 80 percent water.
“The boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celsius.” [212 °F]”said al-Bursh. “When a body is exposed to energy greater than 3000 degrees, combined with massive pressure and oxidation, the fluids They boil instantly. Tissues vaporize and turn into ashes. It is chemically inevitable.”
A global genocide, not just Israeli
Legal experts said that the use of these indiscriminate weapons implies not only to Israel but also to its Western suppliers.
“This is a global genocide, not just an Israeli one,” said lawyer Diana Buttu, a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar.
Speaking at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Buttu argued that the supply chain demonstrates complicity. “We see a continuous flow of these weapons from the United States and Europe. “They know these weapons don’t distinguish between a combatant and a child, but they keep sending them.”
Buttu emphasized that under international law, the use of weapons that cannot distinguish between combatants and non-combatants constitutes a war crime.
“He The world knows that Israel possesses and uses these prohibited weaponsButtu said. “The question is why they are allowed to remain outside the accountability system.”
Source: Al Jazeera
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