I reeived this from my colleague Federico Allodi.
Chandler


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Dear Colleagues,
As you may  be aware, consequent to the use of shelling with depleted Uraniun in the Basra and Faluja USA and coalition attacks duting the 1991 and 2003 wars against Iraq, the incidence of newborn
deformities seen in the hospital of those cities increased by a rate of 275%. We also read on the clinical evidence of white phosphous burns after the Israeli attack on Gaza from December 2008-January
2009. Now we have evidence of the presence of metal toxicants on newborn babies of mothers exposed to those Israeli attacks.
This is a first time finding of teratogenic and genetic defects related to the use of weapons with of metal toxicants. Please keep the article as basic reference.
Many thanks to Paola Manduca and her colleagues.
The new state of Palestine has the right to bring along that evidence to the charges of war crimes against the State of Israel to the International Court of Justice. It has nothing to lose and the whole
world much to gain.
Best wishes
Federico Allodi, MD



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Subject:
Fwd: article accepted in IJERPH -Gaza reproductive health
Date:
Sun, 11 May 2014 07:50:45 +0100
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derek summerfield <[log in to unmask]>
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Tony Delamothe <[log in to unmask]>


Absolutely essential work by Professor Manduca (Genoa University) and colleagues. Derek S

Specific Association of Teratogen and Toxicant Metals in Hair of Newborns with Congenital Birth Defects or Developmentally Premature Birth in a Cohort of Couples with Documented Parental Exposure to
Military Attacks: Observational Study at Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza, Palestine

Paola Manduca 1,*, Awny Naim 2,? and Simona Signoriello 3,?

Abstract: This study was undertaken in Gaza, Palestine, in a cohort of babies born in 2011. Hair samples of newborns were analyzed for metal load by DRC-ICP-MS. We report specific level of contamination
by teratogen/toxicants metals of newborn babies, environmentally unexposed, according to their phenotypes at birth: normal full term babies, birth defects or developmentally premature. The occurrence of
birth defects was previously shown to be correlated in this cohort to documented exposure of parents to weapons containing metal contaminants, during attacks in 2009. We detect, in significantly higher
amounts than in normal babies, different specific teratogen or toxicant elements, known weapons? components, characteristic for each of birth defect or premature babies. This is the first attempt to our
knowledge to directly link a phenotype at birth with the in utero presence of specific teratogen and/or toxicant metals in a cohort with known episodes of acute exposure of parents to environmental
contamination by these same metals, in this case delivered by weaponry The babies were conceived 20?25 months after the major known parental exposure; the specific link of newborn phenotypes to war-remnant
metal contaminants, suggests that mothers? contamination persists in time, and that the exposure may have a long term effect.

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Paola Manduca, Prof. Genetics
DISTAV, University of Genoa, Italy



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Paola Manduca, Prof. Genetics
DISTAV, University of Genoa, Italy



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