Report: Israel Dropped 2K-Pound Bombs on Gaza Humanitarian Zone

The Facts

• Citing three military experts, The New York Times has reported that Israel likely used 2K-pound bombs — which can cause wide civilian casualties over several hundred feet — to strike a humanitarian zone for displaced people in Al-Mawasi, near Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on Tuesday, killing 19.

• After analyzing footage of about 50-foot-wide craters and shell fragments following the attack, the experts said that the dimensions of the craters and weapons fragments found at the scene are consistent with the tail section of a SPICE 2000 guidance kit used with 2K-pound bombs.

• The Israeli military said it attacked several "senior Hamas terrorists" it alleged were operating "within a command-and-control center embedded inside the humanitarian area" and using civilians as human shields. Hamas denied the accusations.