Consequences of the Israeli explosions in the Dead Sea
Regional-Israel, Politics, 12/24/1999

Nuclear scientists and experts in international law have warned against the consequences of the explosions carried out recently by Israel in the Dead Sea.

In a report by the Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa issued on December 21, the international law experts said that that the recent Israeli explosions in the Dead Sea were part of a continuous chains of Israeli violations of all enacted international norms and charters, saying that these explosions coincided with assertions by the Greenpeace group that Israel had actually threatened the Mediterranean and the Negev desert in a way that the pollution caused by Israel is more dangerous that of the Diamona reactor, because Israel still dumps poisonous industrial waste in the sea, periodically.

In this respect the teacher of the international law Hazem Jumaa told the Kuwaiti daily that there is an international agreement which bans the conducting of experiments for non-peaceful purposes and bans the production and stockpiling of weapons, noting that Israel did not sign the agreement that provides for banning the dissemination of chemical weapons.

For his part, Egypt's representative at UNESCO in the area of dismantling weapons of mass destruction, Abdul Fattah Badawi, has denied the Israeli claims that said the objective of the recent explosions was to create an earthquake to test its earthquake monitoring equipment.

Badawi told also the Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa that it is more likely that Israel tested a new tactical nuclear weapon of between one to five tons in which it measured the effect of this bomb on the armies in case a war erupts, as such bombs kill in an area of one square kilometer.

In a similar statement to al-Anbaa Ezzat Abdul Aziz, who is the former chairman of the Egyptian nuclear energy commission, stressed that Israel is working to develop its chemical weapons as well as its nuclear weapons, and it owns both weapons, saying that such explosions mostly take place when new weapons are tested.

Abdul Aziz indicated that the recent explosions were very strong and were felt by people who live close to the Dead Sea area. He added that this proves that the interaction among the chemical elements prepared by the Israeli scientists would have an adverse impact on the surrounding environment to the area of the explosions and that the Middle East has become a field of experiment for the weapons of mass destruction.

For his part, the director of a regional center on radiation Yaqout al-Raash, said that the Israeli explosions may lead to polluting the ground waters and creating geological disorders in the neighboring countries.

Meanwhile remote-sensing teacher Majid al-Rukeibi stressed that the dangers of these explosions is in the site chosen for the test, saying that the Dead Sea is an extension of al-Aqaba Gulf, and such explosions will lead to further cracks and rifts in the geological structure of the region.

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