The bombs used in the Israeli attack that killed dozens of Palestinians on Sunday in a camp for displaced people near Rafah, in Gaza, were manufactured in the United States, according to experts and analysis carried out by several American media on the incident.
According to him Times “The remains of ammunition filmed at the site of the attack the next day were from a GBU-39, a bomb designed and manufactured in the United States.”
The New York newspaper adds that the key detail in the remains of the weapon found was the tail actuation system, which controls the fins that guide the GBU-39 towards a target, according to Trevor Ball, former explosive ordnance disposal technician for the Army. USA
The ammunition fragments, filmed by Alam Sadeq, a Palestinian journalist, are also marked by a series of numbers beginning with β81873.β This is the unique identification code assigned by the United States government to Woodward, a Colorado-based aerospace manufacturer that supplies parts for bombs, including the GBU-39, the newspaper insists.
However, βthe use of any munition, even of this size, will always involve risks in a densely populated area,β added the specialist, who is also a former British Army artillery officer.
The Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp for displaced people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where the war has caused some 36,000 deaths, more than 70% civilians, since it began more than seven months ago. and a half.
The deceased were in a supposed “safe zone” in the Tal al Sultan neighborhood, in the northwest of Rafah, where there were hundreds of displaced people in a makeshift camp that Israel had not yet ordered to evacuate.
For its part, the Pentagon defended yesterday that the operation of the Israel Defense Forces in Rafah has a limited scope and although it described the attack on a camp for displaced people as “horrible,” it asked to wait for the results of the Israeli investigation.
“We still think it’s a limited operation,” Pentagon deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said at a news conference.
The United States has threatened to stop supplying weapons to Israel if it persists in its attacks on Rafah, a decision that has not ultimately been materialized by Democratic President Joe Biden, who continues to defend his support as the first Western ally for the Netanyahu Government.
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