Kh-101 cruise missile launches have been conducted from Tu-95MS and Tu-160M strategic bombers.
🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Low-altitude Israeli Air Force fighter jet activity above the Nabatieh area and its surroundings, southern Lebanon.
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🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — More footage of the Israeli Air Force airstrike against the Tell al-Dubsha Hill, immediately northwest of the Ali al-Taher Hill, southern Lebanon.
⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 Reports of foul odors seeping into homes in Nabatiyeh and Kfarjouz, southern Lebanon, following the recent airstrikes.
🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — IDF artillery strikes against the Ali al-Taher axis, southern Lebanon continue.
🇸🇾 💥 — Syrian Television reports an explosion was heard in the western countryside of Daraa. The nature of the incident is currently being investigated.
⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 Further Israeli artillery bombardment has targeted the Ali al-Taher heights in southern Lebanon; however, it seems that the Israeli airstrikes have largely ceased for the night.
🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Some of the earlier IDF artillery strikes against Kfar Rumman, southern Lebanon were conducted with white phosphorus shells.
This is the reason for reported foul odors throughout the Nabatieh area, and why someone in Kfarjoun suffocated.
This is the reason for reported foul odors throughout the Nabatieh area, and why someone in Kfarjoun suffocated.
White phosphorus is a chemical agent that burns fiercely at over 800°C (1,500°F) upon contact with air.
Key Characteristics
Purpose: Creates dense smoke screens to mask troop movements.
Odor: Smells like sharp, pungent garlic due to chemical vapor impurities and phosphine gas.
Injuries: Causes deep, fat-penetrating burns to the bone and severe internal organ toxicity.
Suffocation: Inhaling the thick smoke causes immediate, acute respiratory failure.
Law and Medical Treatment
Legality: Prohibited in civilian areas under Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
Treatment: Requires immediate exclusion of oxygen to stop the burning, often using materials like water or wet mud.
Removal: Wounds require specialized medical intervention to ensure all chemical particles are extracted to prevent re-ignition.
Key Characteristics
Purpose: Creates dense smoke screens to mask troop movements.
Odor: Smells like sharp, pungent garlic due to chemical vapor impurities and phosphine gas.
Injuries: Causes deep, fat-penetrating burns to the bone and severe internal organ toxicity.
Suffocation: Inhaling the thick smoke causes immediate, acute respiratory failure.
Law and Medical Treatment
Legality: Prohibited in civilian areas under Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
Treatment: Requires immediate exclusion of oxygen to stop the burning, often using materials like water or wet mud.
Removal: Wounds require specialized medical intervention to ensure all chemical particles are extracted to prevent re-ignition.
The legality of white phosphorus depends entirely on how and where it is deployed:
Legal Use: It is legal when used strictly on an open battlefield as a smoke screen to obscure troops or for illumination.
Illegal Use: It is illegal to use it to directly target human beings, or to deploy air-dropped incendiary weapons inside populated civilian areas.
Human rights organizations argue that firing it into residential municipalities in southern Lebanon constitutes an unlawful, indiscriminate attack under international humanitarian law because it foreseeably harms civilians.
Legal Use: It is legal when used strictly on an open battlefield as a smoke screen to obscure troops or for illumination.
Illegal Use: It is illegal to use it to directly target human beings, or to deploy air-dropped incendiary weapons inside populated civilian areas.
Human rights organizations argue that firing it into residential municipalities in southern Lebanon constitutes an unlawful, indiscriminate attack under international humanitarian law because it foreseeably harms civilians.
🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Two Kh-101 cruise missiles flying westwards in Chernikiv Oblast, Ukraine were intercepted by Ukrainian Air Force F-16AM Fighting Falcon fighter jets.
No further Kh-101s are in Ukrainian airspace as of now.
No further Kh-101s are in Ukrainian airspace as of now.
🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Eight Kh-101 cruise missiles detected entering Kharkiv Oblast, eastern Ukraine, moving southwest.
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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Eight Kh-101 cruise missiles detected entering Kharkiv Oblast, eastern Ukraine, moving southwest.
The missile is designed with a radar-absorbing composite coating and a low-profile airframe, yielding a very small radar cross-section. It is built to fly low—hugging the terrain at altitudes of just 30 to 70 meters—to slip underneath enemy radar systems, and it has a very far range ability.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 ⚡️ — Ukrainian Emergency Authority reported 4 killed and 23 injured as a result of a large-scale Russian attack on the capital Kyiv.