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According to a Wall Street Journal reportthe United States provided the so-called “Bunker Buster” bombs and a lot of other ammunition for Israel for its war on Gaza. Specifically, there are 100 BLU-109 bombs that are intended to penetrate the reinforced structures before they explode. A typology that the US has already used in other conflicts, including the Afghanistan conflict. Each device carries a weighted warhead over 900 kilos. It is not the only type of ammunition that America has provided to Israel for the war against the besieged enclave, which has been the case so far More than 15,000 Palestinians were killed, including at least 6,150 children. The Hamas attack on October 7 killed 1,200 people. Unlike regular weapons updates on the war in Ukraine, the Pentagon has remained largely silent about the extent of its support for the Jewish state.
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The WSJ newspaper report explains that the wave of US arms sales to Israel has increased since the start of the war 15,000 bombs and 57,000 bullets Artillery (155 mm) carried primarily in C-17 military cargo aircraft. Washington also sent more than 5,000 Mk82 unguided bombs, more than 5,400 Mk84 bombs, about 1,000 small-diameter GBU-39 bombs and about 3,000 JDAMs, a guidance system that turns unguided explosives into precision-guided munitions. This is in addition to the billions of dollars Israel receives each year in U.S. financial support for its military operations. According to the WSJ, some of Israel’s deadliest attacks on the Gaza Strip have involved large U.S.-made bombs, including an attack on a Hamas leader that leveled a home in the Jabalia refugee camp and killed more than 100 people.
“These are significant bombs that the United States has used in the past Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, but mainly in open areas. Now Israel is using these bombs in a very different environment in Gaza, against a densely populated civilian population, Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro explained. “Many people are now wondering whether it is a good idea to continue to distribute these bunker bombs.” Bombs could theoretically be used for this purpose Open the tunnels with which Hamas moves personnel and ammunition. However, the tunnels are underneath youdensely populated urban areawhich would mean that the use of bombs would result in many more civilian casualties.
The bombings
Intense airstrikes on Gaza resumed yesterday, shortly after the end of a week-long ceasefire that saw dozens of prisoners held by Hamas exchanged for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. The Jewish state’s army, which asked to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip during its ground operations, also said this Parts of the southern Gaza Strip are now a combat zone. Human rights organizations have repeatedly stated that there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip. The United States has supported (and continues to support) Israel’s war efforts in light of this. International pressure for a complete ceasefire is growing. Washington said it had asked its ally to try to limit civilian casualties, although it could not even say that Gaza’s main hospitals were safe from the bombing.
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