As Operation “Cast Lead” has come to a close, charges have once again been raised that Israel used weapons containing depleted uranium.  The UN showed this charge to be baseless the last time it was raised, in 2006, but has been raised again under similarly dubious aims.  Below is an excerpt from the 2006 notice of the UN Environment Programme’s findings:

Reporting on the findings of a UNEP assessment carried out for three weeks in October, Achim Steiner said samples taken from 32 sites south and north of the Litani river found “no evidence of penetrators or metal made of DU or other radioactive material.”

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