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SvennoJ on 10 September 2024
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Probe confirms Israeli military used US-made bombs in al-Mawasi attack

A new investigation by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency has shown that the Israeli air raid targeting civilians in Gaza’s humanitarian zone was carried out using MK-84 bombs, which weigh 2,000 pounds.

At 12:34am local time (09:34 GMT), several Israeli missiles struck a refugee camp in the al-Mawasi area, located within the humanitarian zone designated by the Israeli army for displaced civilians – west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

The Israeli bombing caused widespread damage to the tents, homes, and facilities in the area. Photos from the bombing site reveal widespread devastation, with craters 10 to 15 metres (33 – 49 feet) deep, burying dozens of tents.

Civil defence teams faced immense challenges retrieving the bodies of the dead and injured, with rescue operations continuing into the next morning.


Bombs ‘completely melted and evaporated’ bodies

The Israeli army has targeted the al-Mawasi area during a predawn attack in which they killed 40 Palestinians and wounded 60 others.

Gaza’s media office has confirmed that of 19 of those who were killed, their bodies were managed to be transferred to hospitals in Khan Younis. But the 22 others, their bodies were completely melted and evaporated due to the size of the bombs used in that attack.

The crater that resulted from the raid is a clear indication of how massive the bombs being used are.



But Khan Younis has also been under intense attacks in the past couple of hours, where a residential building was completely destroyed, and six Palestinians were confirmed killed in that attack. Here in the central area, the situation is incredibly chaotic, because the army has been targeting the Bureij refugee camp.

The Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said that they managed to militarily defeat Hamas and now there are continuing attacks on very densely populated areas. So the question is, who is Israel attacking?


UN criticises deadly Israeli military attacks on southern Gaza

The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) slammed Israel’s overnight attacks on al-Mawasi – an area it unilaterally designated a humanitarian zone and is filled with tents inhabited by internally displaced people in southern Gaza.

The Israeli military “continues to choose to use weapons with wide area effects in these increasingly densely populated areas despite the overwhelming evidence that these means and methods have led to disproportionate harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure, suggesting a complete disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians”, OHCHR said.

This latest attack occurred in the same part of the alleged “humanitarian” zone, where at least 71 were killed in similar circumstances on July 13. “This is despite the Israeli military continuing to order Palestinian civilians to evacuate there, including most recently on August 24.”