International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Press Reports on the Middle Bast

The Week Vol. 7, No. 24, 15 June 1967 · p. 12 of the scan · 171 words

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compiled by Dave Windsor

Times Hundreds of Napalm victims in Jordan based on New York Hundreds ot Napaim victims in vorean

the number at 15,000.

Bikhazi, leader of a 23-man volunteer medical si might Teieaiatte Hospital in Beirut, at caw eamnaatee, ‘atin In General Army Hospital in Amman , Dr. re oe Sean "Geena he had seen were victims of what he diagnosed >. nap ‘a selves however, that he had no previous experience with napa He had also been to the military hospital at eh Saat, on eee

ingle bullet wound. H

iLlit casualties, he had not seen a sing that pen than 200 gapial sine there were diagnosed as suffering ae Prokenapalm burns. "The casualties were fearsome and many were burned ae ty He said, adding that the wounded soldiers could talk of nothing but re bombs, firebombs." As he returned to Amman from Zarga, Dr. Bikhazi reported, he saw the re-=j mains of a mobile medical unit, marked with a red cross, that had been destroyed by napalm.

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