Experts say 'Israel' likely used 2,000-pound US bombs in Mawasi strike
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According to an arms expert, the crater and weapon fragments are compatible with the deployment of numerous MK 84 2,000-pound bombs.
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Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of Israeli strikes on a makeshift displacement camp in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip on September 10. (AFP)
The visual evidence from the al-Mawasi massacre indicates that the Israeli occupation may have utilized 2,000-pound bombs in the aggression, two weapons specialists revealed.
Gaza's Civil Defense agency said an Israeli strike Tuesday on the supposedly "humanitarian zone" in the Palestinian enclave killed at least 40 people.
According to Trevor Ball of CNN, the pieces discovered at the location appear to be sections of the tip and tail of a Spice 2000 bomb guidance kit's thermal battery component.
In the early hours of Tuesday, "Israel" carried out a devastating airstrike on the densely packed displacement camp in #KhanYounis, Gaza, killing at least 40 Palestinians and injuring 65 others.
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) September 10, 2024
The camp, situated in what the Israeli occupation had previously designated as a… pic.twitter.com/YqR4XfRWcF
Ball, a veteran US Army explosive ordnance disposal expert, added that the crater and weapon fragments were compatible with the deployment of numerous MK 84 2,000-pound bombs with 900 pounds of high explosives each.
Patrick Senft, a research coordinator at Armament Research Services (ARES), told CNN that evidence at the location shows that 2,000-pound bombs were deployed.
Senft explained that the damage and size of craters are in line with the effects of "aerial bombs weighing several hundred kilograms. One fragment is visually consistent with the tail section of a SPICE 2000 guidance kit, suggesting that at least one 2,000-pound bomb was employed.”
He explained that “the SPICE 2000 kit can be attached to a variety of 2,000-pound unguided aerial bombs, turning them into highly precise munitions."
Al-Mawasi massacre survivors recount horrors
CNN footage from the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis shows Palestinians carrying the bodies of the victims, including children, in white shrouds, as women wail out on the steps of the hospital.
Mahmoud Al Nims, a Palestinian witness, told CNN that people woke up to sudden sounds of explosions and fire surrounding them from all sides, adding, "My message is that if this is life, we don’t need it.”
Another survivor, Taghreed Abu Assi expressed, “They told us to go to Mawasi and we did, and they strike us. We have been displaced a hundred times.”
"Children are orphans, parents lost their children,” she added.
Resistance denies Israeli claims: Mawasi massacre is ethnic cleansing
The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas condemned the Israeli occupation for committing a horrific massacre overnight Monday in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, where Israeli occupation warplanes targeted the tents of displaced Palestinians with heavy bombs.
In a statement, Hamas emphasized that "this brutal attack on an area declared as a safe zone by the occupation confirms the ongoing genocide carried out by the Nazi-like Israeli government against the Palestinian people."
It's horrifying. They are searching for their families lost beneath the sands in the tent massacre. pic.twitter.com/GxATj3To5G
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) September 10, 2024
It accused "Israel" of deliberately committing "heinous massacres with full support from the US administration, which is complicit in the aggression," showing no regard for international or humanitarian law or the resolutions calling for an end to the violence.
Hamas refuted the Israeli occupation forces' claims that members of the Resistance were present at the targeted site, calling them "blatant lies" through which the Israeli occupation seeks to justify its crimes.
It, once again, denied that "any of its members were among the civilian gatherings or using these sites for military purposes."
The movement further called on the international community, the United Nations, and political, humanitarian, and judicial institutions to "assume their responsibility in stopping this massacre," urging them to take necessary measures to "bring Zionist war criminals to the International Criminal Court and hold them accountable."
The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement condemned the crime in Khan Younis, which claimed the lives of more than 40 martyrs and wounded more than 65, in an unfinished toll, considering it a new crime in the war of extermination committed by the "fascist government of the entity using Western-American weapons" against the Palestinian people.
It held the US administration and its president, Joe Biden, fully responsible for the "heinous crime" in Khan Younis "and all the crimes of the enemy against our people," considering it a key partner in the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people as it continues to provide international cover and military support to the "Nazi Netanyahu government."
The movement further stressed that the Israeli occupation's justifications for the crime are "false and absurd as it continues to kill and terrorize as part of a series aimed at breaking the will of our people and displacing them from their land."
There were tents with refugees here. Look at the size of this crater! They dropped such powerful bombs on children sleeping in nylon tents! Dozens killed and many buried alive. This is absolutely demonic. pic.twitter.com/9iURetZfiS
— Hadi (@HadiNasrallah) September 10, 2024
