Above, an MK82 500-hundred pound US bomb

Press TV – April 5, 2024

The United States has approved providing the Israeli regime with thousands more bombs as Tel Aviv presses ahead with its ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

“The State Department approved the transfer of more than 1,000 MK82 500-pound bombs, over 1,000 small-diameter bombs, and fuses for MK80 bombs,” The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing US officials.

Reports say the Washington has quietly made more than 100 weapons sales to Tel Aviv since October 7, when the latter began the war against Gaza in response to a retaliatory operation by the coastal sliver’s resistance movements.

More than 33,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in the brutal military onslaught so far.

The approvals were given on Monday, the same day when the Israeli military killed seven aid workers serving the World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity, including an American citizen, in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah.

“The transaction demonstrates the administration’s determination to continue its flow of lethal weaponry to Israel despite Monday’s high-profile killings and growing calls for the United States to condition such support on greater protection for civilians in the war zone,” the paper wrote.

Washington has expressed supposed “outrage” at the killings, and has also called for a ceasefire in Gaza, despite sustaining its uninterrupted flow of ample arms supplies towards Tel Aviv.

Reporting late last month, The Post said the administration of US President Joe Biden had authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and warplanes to Israel in a matter of days.

Pentagon and State Department officials said the new arms packages included more than 1800 bombs, the daily said at the time.

The report described the explosives as 2000-pound devices that can demolish entire city blocks and were rarely used in populated areas. Israel, however, has used them extensively in Gaza.

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