In the fight against Hamas: the US supplies Israel with bunker-busting bombs

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As the American newspaper “Wall Street Journal” reported on Friday (local time), citing US officials, Israel alone received 100 bunker-busting bombs with a BLU-109 warhead after Hamas’ unprecedented massacre in Israel on October 7. The delivery of additional weapons and ammunition, including approximately 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells, began shortly after the Hamas attack on Israel and has continued in recent days.

The US, which supplied its key ally in the region with weapons and ammunition even before the start of the Gaza war, had previously disclosed neither the total number of weapons supplied to Israel nor the bunker-busting bombs, it was said. The BLU-109 warhead is designed to accurately destroy bunkers and other deeply buried, heavily hardened targets such as tunnels. Hamas has a network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip that extends hundreds of kilometers beneath the coastal strip. The tunnels not only provide Hamas with good hiding places, but the terrorists can also unexpectedly emerge from underground and disappear again.

Israel has a state-of-the-art military that also has its own bunker-busting bombs. According to the Wall Street Journal, the US is urging its key ally to ensure civilian casualties are avoided in delivering most of the munitions delivered after the Hamas massacre. After a week-long ceasefire, fighting resumed in Gaza on Friday. As rockets were again fired into Israel from Gaza, Israel’s ground, air and naval forces again attacked hundreds of targets in the north and south of the closed-off coastal area.

(SDA)

Source: Blick