Gaza—MOI
Israeli warplanes and gunboats have thrown more than 5000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip during the current offensive against the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Police official, Hazem Murad, from the Explosive Engineering Department said in an exclusive statement for the Ministry of the Interior website that the Israeli military launches various types of arms such as GBUs. Israeli
F15, F16 and F18 war jets also target civilians in the strip. .
"Israeli warships fired mk84 missiles which are usually used during big wars", he added.
Murad told the MOI's correspondent the bomb MK842000 weighs 1000 kg, measures up to 3 meters in length and
has a destructive power of up to 300 square meters.
He said that Israeli artillery stationed in eastern Gaza fired high-explosive shells at civilian houses, mainly in Rafah, Khan
Younis and other border areas such as Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya , Shojae'ya and Alzaitoon.
The Israeli navy also fired new kinds of shells, not used in the two previous wars on the Gaza Strip, intensively.
He said that the occupation used saturated uranium shells in the bombing of the Palestinians, explaining that the occupation also used missiles launched by drones to target citizens.
Murad noted that the engineering of explosives follow-up such cases closely in order to provide secure and stable conditions for citizens.
The Explosive Engineering Department collects waste and bombs, then destroys them in special places far from residential neighborhoods.
He pointed out that more than 70 unexploded shells were found and expected that the Explosive Engineering Department may find more unexploded ordnance under the rubble of bombed houses.
He appealed to citizens not to remove the rubble of homes destroyed by the Israeli occupation before coordinating with the explosives engineering of the police for fear of the unexploded ordnance.
