Burning smell: How are Israeli strikes affecting the air we breathe?

With intensifying Israeli attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs day and night, the air is gradually becoming difficult to breathe, and a sharp burnt smell can be detected kilometers away.According to Charbel Afif, an air pollution expert and professor at the Faculty of Sciences at l'Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth (USJ), it is difficult to determine exactly what people in Lebanon are breathing because it is a “toxic mixture.”“If you are smelling something related to pollution, it already means that the concentration of pollutants in the air is very high, because the human sense of smell can only detect them at a minimum concentration,” he told L'Orient Today. In the news HRW accuses Israel of 'unlawfully' using white phosphorus in new Lebanon attacks Pollution from the bombings does not come only from the explosives...