Middle East - Report: USA supplied Israel with bunker buster bombs
According to a report, the USA has supplied Israel with 100 bunker buster bombs and tens of thousands of other weapons for the war against the Islamist Hamas.
As the US newspaper "Wall Street Journal" reported, citing US officials, Israel was provided with 100 bunker-busting bombs with a BLU-109 warhead alone following the unprecedented Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7. The delivery of additional weapons and ammunition, including around 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells, began shortly after the Hamas attack on Israel and has continued in recent days.
USA: Avoid civilian casualties
The USA, which supplied its most important ally in the region with weapons and ammunition even before the start of the Gaza war, had not previously disclosed the total number of weapons delivered to Israel or the bunker-busting bombs, it said.
The BLU-109 warhead was developed to destroy bunkers and other deeply buried, massively hardened targets such as tunnels with pinpoint accuracy. Hamas has a network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip that stretches for hundreds of kilometers beneath the coastal strip. The tunnels not only provide Hamas with good hiding places, the terrorists can also emerge unexpectedly from underground and disappear again.
Israel has a highly modern army, which also has its own bunker-busting bombs. According to the"Wall Street Journal", the USA is urging its important ally to ensure that civilian casualties are avoided when supplying a large proportion of the ammunition delivered after the Hamas massacre. Following a week-long ceasefire, fighting in Gaza resumed on Friday. While rockets were again fired from Gaza towards Israel, Israel's ground, air and naval forces again attacked hundreds of targets in the north and south of the sealed-off coastal area.
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- The USA has been a key ally to Israel in the region, providing it with military aid for years, but this latest supply of weapons is drawing international scrutiny due to the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
- The situation in Gaza is complicated, with Hamas refusing to disarm and engage in peace talks while Israel maintains a blockade on the coastal strip, exacerbating the living conditions for Palestinians in the region.
Source: www.stern.de
