Analysts who reviewed photos of a bomb dropped by Israeli forces on Rafah in Gaza that killed dozens of people was a US-made guided munition, CBS News reports. A photojournalist on the scene assembled fragments of the munition that included English words and other markings hinting it came from the US.
“I instantly knew the housing was a GBU [guided bomb unit],” former US Army bomb disposal specialist Trevor Ball said after seeing photographs. “I’ve seen a lot of them in this conflict, and I’ve even gone back and looked at past conflicts just to get an idea of what ordinance Israel has used in the past when I started looking into this, and it’s a very distinct object, the GBU. It’s a very unique round.”
The Biden Administration has warned Israel about the judicious use of US-supplied weapons, particularly when using them around civilian populations. Biden held up a shipment of 2,000 bombs to Israel after reports of potential war crimes by Israel including targeting civilian populations.