The Observer newspaper has issued a correction over a claim that Israel used chemical weapons against people in Gaza.
Columnist Nabila Ramadi wrote in the Comment section of the paper this month that "white phosphorus shells – a chemical weapon that causes severe burning right down to the bone – were used by Israeli forces against Palestinians in Gaza in 2008 in breach of all international conventions”.
A correction was published in Sunday's edition of the paper following a complaint from the Israeli embassy in London.
The correction read that "white phosphorus used by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2008, is not a chemical weapon as understood by the Chemical Weapons Convention, and its use is in itself not ‘in breach of all international conventions’.”
