Reuters<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201c[It] fits with the strike profile and the penetrating fuze settings and large warhead required to produce that sort of crater,\u201d Bronk said. He added that the combination of BLU-109 bomb and JDAM kit were \u201cwhat you\u2019d expect for going after a buried, hardened target like that.\u201d <\/p>\n
Addressing reporters Saturday, Brig. Gen. Amichai Levin, commander of Israel\u2019s Hatzerim Airbase, said that \u201cdozens of munitions hit the target within seconds with very high precision,\u201d adding that was what was \u201crequired to hit this deep underground.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Israeli military has repeatedly used 2,000-pound bombs during its deadly campaign in Gaza. Weapons and warfare experts blame the extensive use of such heavy munitions for the huge death toll. <\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s campaign in Gaza has killed more than 41,500 Palestinians and wounded more than 96,000 others, according to the latest figures from the health ministry there. Israel launched its ground offensive and aerial bombardment of the strip in response to the Hamas-led attack on October 7, in which militants killed around 1,200 people and took 250 others hostage. <\/p>\n
The use of 2,000-pound bombs, which are mostly manufactured by the US, can cause high casualty events in part due to the enormous scale of their impact. The weapon\u2019s blast, or lethal fragmentation radius \u2013 an area of exposure to injury or death around the target \u2013 is up to 365 meters (about 1,198 feet), or the equivalent of 58 soccer fields. <\/p>\n
In May, the Biden administration said it had paused a shipment of the bombs to Israel over concerns of their potential use in the Rafah incursion and their risk to civilian harm. <\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s strikes in Lebanon continued at pace over the weekend, killing more than 100 people and wounding more than 350 others in the country on Sunday. The Israeli military said it was striking Hezbollah, including in attacks by fighter jets on about 45 targets near a village in southern Lebanon. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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