White phosphorus burns at 800°C, melting flesh down to the bone and its use is a war crime - Israel have used it in Gaza and Lebanon

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Iran has bombed a chemical compound linked to Israel’s white phosphorus production, finally delivering a scrap of consequences to Israel – unlike the entire international community.

White phosphorus is a chemical substance which ignites instantly upon contact with oxygen. It’s incredibly hard to extinguish and sticks to surfaces like clothes and skin. White phosphorus is extremely harmful to people, no matter the route of exposure. It causes deep and severe burns – often down to the bone, breathing problems, and burning of the eyes and respiratory tract.

Israel struck

An Iranian ballistic missile made direct contact with the ICL (Israeli Chemicals Ltd) Rotem chemical complex in the Negev on 25 March. It caused a large blast and a fire near the site.

DIRECT HIT! 🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱 Footage shows the moment an Iranian missile struck the state-owned “Rotem” military research facility in the Negev. Israel has imposed a STRICT media blackout on the extent of the damage! pic.twitter.com/NubMZVPu8f

— 𝐓𝐌𝐓 (@TMT_arabic) March 25, 2026

The facility is located in the Rotem Industrial Zone near Dimona. It houses infrastructure belonging to several industrial and technology companies.

Social media users geolocated the missile impact site to the facility, and the missile damaged the structure.

Damage to structure in the Rotem Amfert facility, east of DIMONA, Israel

The company produces fertilizer and related chemicals and is located ~8km north-east of the Negev Nuclear Research Center.

31.062424, 35.193562@GeoConfirmed @EpicFuryMap @FaytuksNetwork

geolocated by… pic.twitter.com/bSOl1xtUp9

— acceladealer (@acceladealer) March 25, 2026

Importantly, ICL has factories all over the world, including another chemical plant in St Louis, Missouri, which also produces white phosphorus for both the US and Israeli armies.

Karma

The Canary has previously reported on the shady business of ICL – which the company was not happy with, by the way.

So it seems like a healthy dose of karma that one of its war-crime producing factories has now been bombed.

White phosphorus ignites on contact with oxygen. It sticks to skin and burns down to the bone. It is very hard to extinguish. Israel is bombing Gaza and Lebanon with white phosphorus. Iran’s strikes on Israel’s white phosphorus factories are a service to humanity. https://t.co/oCA1i15Jv0

— Shailja #FreePalestine Patel (@shailjapatel) March 25, 2026

The human body absorbs white phosphorus, causing dysfunction in multiple organs, including the liver, kidneys, and heart.

It burns at more than 800 degrees Celsius (nearly 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit). That is high enough to melt metal.

Importantly though:

The incendiary effects of white phosphorous can cause death or cruel injuries that result in lifelong suffering.

The use of chemical weapons, such as white phosphorus, in civilian areas is a war crime for exactly this reason.

According to the World Health Organisation:

The use of white phosphorus may violate Protocol III (on the use of incendiary weapons) of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCCW) in one specific instance: if it is used, on purpose, as an incendiary weapon directly against humans in a civilian setting.

So far, Israel has used white phosphorus in both Gaza and Lebanonas far back as 2023.

I saw an interview with the mother of a Palestinian girl who had had her hair and eyelids burned off by Israeli white phosphorous. She couldn’t even close her eyes to shut out the horror of her own reflection.

Israel will be a pariah state for generations, if it even survives.

— Ruby Redshoes (@Ruby__Redshoes) March 26, 2026

Of course, the majority of the international community didn’t give a shit when little children were burnt alive.

White phosphorus has eaten the flesh of Palestinians in Gaza without the world lifting a finger. May every inch of that complex burn to the ground https://t.co/caPklJOGvN

— Remi Kanazi (@Remroum) March 25, 2026

But when Israel is using weapons that literally melt off children’s faces – we have to ask why it’s only Iran, and only now, that anyone has bothered to take a stand.

Iran taking out the apartheid regime’s chemical weapons. 🙃 https://t.co/FdIye3IZIK

— Basti 🍥 (@SHartmann82) March 25, 2026

Strategic military targets

For 30 years, Netanyahu has been banging on about Iran being two weeks away from having nuclear weapons. Of course, he has zero proof for these claims.

Yet Israel has had nuclear weapons since 1969, and has refused both inspections and safeguards from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

We also have years’ worth of evidence of Israel (not Iran) indiscriminately attacking civilians with all kinds of weapons. Yet somehow, the Epstein class want us to believe Iran is the bad guy?

So Iran appears to be the one enforcing the law against terror weapons used in ethnic cleansing https://t.co/HdhPEuiPGa

— The Fulcrum Point (@Fu1crumPoint) March 26, 2026

Now it turns out that Iran is destroying the real weapons of mass destruction – Israel’s.

Average Israeli airstrike: we blew up a hospital

Average Iranian missile strike: we precision targeted a facility known as The Death Factory https://t.co/HwtQHeO06S

— j (@thickyrubio) March 25, 2026

Where international law, morals, conscience, and even the United Nations have failed, Iran has stepped in.

Notice how Iran keeps hitting actual military and strategic targets while Israel just keeps targeting and bombing civilian targets.

— Yi-Long (@YikeYuke) March 25, 2026

Every western country should have been doing the same if they had a spine.

— RAY RAY (@sweet_baby_ray5) March 25, 2026

There is only one thing Israel does well – and that is playing the victim. So I won’t be surprised when we see an official Israeli broadcast telling us that bombing an illegal chemical weapons factory is antisemitic.

But the truth is that while the majority of the international community has collectively sat on its arse and let Israel murder innocent people, Iran has taken out the chemical weapons production of an illegal, apartheid regime. It deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.

More than Trump does, at least.

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By HG

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