ALBAWABA - During an operation on Saturday, the Israeli military dropped "dozens of tons of bombs" on the southern Gazan neighborhood of Al-Mawasi. The declared goal was to remove Hamas's military chief, Mohammed Deif, according to "Maariv."
Many fighter planes dropped significant amounts of explosives as part of an extensive bombing operation.
The United States had made the decision to stop sending Israel 2,000-pound bombs earlier this year. But two days earlier, U.S. officials said that US will soon start sending 500-pound bombs to Israel again, a supply that the Biden administration had previously halted.
Speaking to the "Wall Street Journal," an American administration official said that the bombs are "in the process of being shipped" right now and should reach Israel in a few weeks. The bigger 2,000-pound bombs are still postponed in order to prevent civilian fatalities. Several activists countered that this reasoning was insufficient, citing the everyday suffering of Gaza's civilian population due to intense shelling.
"Other than the one shipment of 2,000-pound bombs that has been temporarily halted, other weapon shipments are proceeding on schedule," a National Security Council spokeswoman said. Anger has grown after this statement in the Arab and Western populations, with most blaming the United States of encouraging civilian deaths in Gaza.
Israel has insisted that huge bombs are necessary to demolish tunnels, which has alarmed American officials who fear civilian casualties might result from the deployment of such powerful bombs in densely populated regions.
