With his ceasefire proposal in the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza not gaining traction, US President Biden this week approved the resumption of shipping 227-kilo bombs to Israel, while holding back on supplying 907-kilo bombs over protests over their use in densely populated areas.
In May, the US stopped shipping both types of bombs. One 907-kilo bomb can rip through thick concrete and metal, according to a US official, who said their particular concern is the “end-use” of such large bombs in the ongoing siege on Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians had taken refuge.
A trauma surgeon from California, Feroze Sidhwa, who worked at the European hospital in southern Gaza in April, observed: Altogether, The Guardian spoke to six foreign doctors who have worked at the European and the al-Aqsa hospitals in Gaza, in the last three months. All of them described encountering wounds caused by “fragmentation” weapons, which they said had contributed to the alarming rate of amputations since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023. They found the injuries in both adults and children, but the damage done was likely to be more severe in the young ones.
He observed that children hit by multiple pieces of tiny shards often died. “Most of the kids that survived had neurologic injuries and vascular injuries, a major cause for amputation,” Dr. Perlmutter explained. “When blood vessels or the nerves get hit, and comes in a day later, the leg is dead or the arm is dead.”
“The balls and cubes provide the main fragmentation effect from these munitions, with munition casings providing a much smaller portion of the fragmentation effect. Most traditional artillery rounds and bombs rely on the munition casing itself rather than the added fragmentation liners,” Ball said. Indeed, today's dizzying technologies, as well as fast disruptions in politics, economy and cultures have transformed the world into a global village.
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