White phosphorus, however, is also used for smoke screens and signals, which are not banned under the Convention.
On June 9, 2017, the US-led coalition acknowledged using the internationally banned
white phosphorus munitions in its strikes in Raqqa.
US military officials have not denied using
white phosphorus in the city.
Local sources in Deir Ezzor told SANA reporter that warplanes of the US-led coalition fired
white phosphorus bombs at al-Baghouz farms which extends on the Syrian-Iraqi borders with white phosphorous bombs as a number of people were martyred, mostly women and children and others were injured.
Iraqis said US troops used
white phosphorus shells - an incendiary weapon that can burn victims and choke them with thick white smoke.
The 71-page report 'Rain of Fire: Israel's Unlawful Use of
White Phosphorus in Gaza' by Human Rights Watch, discloses that Israeli security forces frequently use
white phosphorus in 155mm artillery shells to fire airbursts in and near populated areas.
The stone was actually
white phosphorus, which had reacted
And if gruesome deaths and international standards are a concern, shouldn't America be attacked because it used
white phosphorus shells on heavily populated areas when it attacked Fallujah in the Iraq War, which is against international law?