https://truthout.org/articles/israel-used-22000-u-s-provided-bombs-on-gaza-in-ju...Israel Used 22,000 US-Provided Bombs on Gaza in Just Six Weeks, Report Reveals
With extensive help from the U.S.,
at least 18,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s assault on Gaza.
By
Sharon Zhang ,
Truthout
Published
December 11, 2023
Tens of thousands of bombs that Israeli forces have used in its genocidal assault of Gaza were provided directly by the U.S., newly reported intelligence figures reveal.
In just the first month and a half after the October 7 attack by Hamas forces, Israel deployed over 22,000 U.S.-produced bombs on Gaza, according to intelligence figures provided to Congress and reported by The Washington Post on Saturday. In that time, the U.S. transferred 15,000 bombs to Israel, including 2,000-pound “bunker busters” that experts say are not normally for use in densely populated residential areas like the Gaza strip, and over 50,000 artillery shells.
The Israeli Air Force has said that it had dropped about 6,000 bombs on Gaza in just the first six days of the assault. Then, around three-and-a-half weeks into the massacre, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that Israeli forces have dropped 10,000 bombs and missiles on Gaza City alone, while Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor data showed that Israel had dropped
25,000 metric tons of explosives on Gaza between October 7 and November 2 — more than the explosive power of the nuclear bomb that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.