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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
- The investigation detailed how specific chemical compositions in Israeli munitions turn human bodies into ash in seconds.
- Vasily Fatigarov, a Russian military expert, explained that thermobaric weapons do not just kill; they obliterate matter. Unlike conventional explosives, these weapons disperse a cloud of fuel that ignites to create an enormous fireball and a vacuum effect.
- “To prolong the burning time, powders of aluminium, magnesium and titanium are added to the chemical mixture,” Fatigarov said. “This raises the temperature of the explosion to between 2,500 and 3,000 degrees Celsius [4,532F to 5,432F].”
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians.
At dawn on August 10, 2024, Yasmin Mahani walked through the smoking ruins of al-Tabin school in Gaza City, searching for her son, Saad. She found her husband screaming, but of Saad, there was no trace.
“I went into the mosque and found myself stepping on flesh and blood,” Mahani told Al Jazeera Arabic for an investigation that aired on Monday. She searched hospitals and morgues for days. “We found nothing of Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part.”
Mahani is one of thousands of Palestinians whose loved ones have simply vanished during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed more than 72,000 people.
According to the Al Jazeera Arabic investigation, The Rest of the Story, Civil Defence teams in Gaza have documented 2,842 Palestinians who have “evaporated” since the war began in October 2023, leaving behind no remains other than blood spray or small fragments of flesh.
Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit].
Grim forensic accounting
The figure of 2,842 is not an estimate, but the result of grim forensic accounting by Gaza’s Civil Defence.
Spokesperson Mahmoud Basal explained to Al Jazeera that teams use a “method of elimination” at strike sites. “We enter a targeted home and cross-reference the known number of occupants with the bodies recovered,” Basal said.
“If a family tells us there were five people inside, and we only recover three intact bodies, we treat the remaining two as ‘evaporated’ only after an exhaustive search yields nothing but biological traces—blood spray on walls or small fragments like scalps,” he added.
The chemistry of erasure
The investigation detailed how specific chemical compositions in Israeli munitions turn human bodies into ash in seconds.
Vasily Fatigarov, a Russian military expert, explained that thermobaric weapons do not just kill; they obliterate matter. Unlike conventional explosives, these weapons disperse a cloud of fuel that ignites to create an enormous fireball and a vacuum effect.
“To prolong the burning time, powders of aluminium, magnesium and titanium are added to the chemical mixture,” Fatigarov said. “This raises the temperature of the explosion to between 2,500 and 3,000 degrees Celsius [4,532F to 5,432F].”
According to the investigation, the intense heat is often generated by tritonal, a mixture of TNT and aluminium powder used in United States-made bombs like the MK-84.
(Al Jazeera)
Dr Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, explained the biological impact of such extreme heat on the human body, which is composed of roughly 80 percent water.
“The boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celsius [212F],” al-Bursh said. “When a body is exposed to energy exceeding 3,000 degrees combined with massive pressure and oxidation, the fluids boil instantly. The tissues vaporise and turn to ash. It is chemically inevitable.”
Anatomy of the bombs
The investigation identified specific US-manufactured munitions used in Gaza that are linked to these disappearances:
- MK-84 ‘Hammer’: This 900kg [2,000lb] unguided bomb packed with tritonal generates heat up to 3,500C [6,332F].
- BLU-109 bunker buster: Used in an attack on al-Mawasi, an area Israel had declared a “safe zone” for forcibly displaced Palestinians in September 2024, this bomb evaporated 22 people. It has a steel casing and a delayed fuse, burying itself before detonating a PBXN-109 explosive mix. This creates a large fireball inside enclosed spaces, incinerating everything within reach.
- GBU-39: This precision glide bomb was used in the al-Tabin school attack. It uses the AFX-757 explosive. “The GBU-39 is designed to keep the building structure relatively intact while destroying everything inside,” Fatigarov noted. “It kills via a pressure wave that ruptures lungs and a thermal wave that incinerates soft tissue.”
Basal of the Civil Defence confirmed finding fragments of GBU-39 wings at sites where bodies had vanished.
A ‘global genocide, not just an Israeli one’
Legal experts said the use of these indiscriminate weapons implicates not just Israel but also its Western suppliers.
“This is a global genocide, not just an Israeli one,” said lawyer Diana Buttu, a lecturer at Georgetown University in Qatar.
Speaking at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Buttu argued that the supply chain is evidence of complicity. “We see a continuous flow of these weapons from the United States and Europe. They know these weapons do not distinguish between a fighter and a child, yet they continue to send them.”
Buttu emphasised that under international law, the use of weapons that cannot distinguish between combatants and noncombatants constitutes a war crime.
“The world knows Israel possesses and uses these prohibited weapons,” Buttu said. “The question is why are they allowed to remain outside the system of accountability.”
Collapse of international justice
Despite the International Court of Justice issuing provisional measures against Israel in January 2024, ordering it to prevent acts of genocide, and an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2024, the killing intensified.
Tariq Shandab, a professor of international law, argued that the international justice system has “failed the test of Gaza”.
“Since the ceasefire agreement [in October], more than 600 Palestinians have been killed,” Shandab said. He highlighted that the war has continued through siege, starvation and strikes. “The blockade on medicine and food is itself a crime against humanity.”
Shandab pointed to the “impunity” granted to Israel by the US veto power at the UN Security Council. However, he noted that universal jurisdiction courts in countries like Germany and France could offer an alternative path to justice, provided there is political will.
For Rafiq Badran, who lost four children in the Bureij refugee camp during the war, these technical definitions mean little. He was only able to recover small parts of his children’s bodies to bury.
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
SOURCE:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/10/israel-used-weapons-in-gaza-that-made-thousands-of-palestinians-evaporate
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US Approves Supply Of MK-84 Bombs To Israel | World News WION
https://youtu.be/XjzDej24OPc?si=HjgH-ChXfNyUcqcn
Israel Receives Shipment of MK-84 Bombs Amid Tensions | Israel Gets Bombs From U.S | Israel US | N18G
https://youtu.be/GObhdPcmh9M?si=Qv7Of_hXWzPmzgp0
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Leaked footage shows terrifying new GAZAP ‘vacuum bomb’ - one of world’s most destructive weapons
100 lives lost: The story behind Israel’s MK-84 bombing of a school in Gaza
U.S. Vice President and now presidential candidate Harris says ‘I’m against an embargo on Israel,’ While Israel drops an MK-84 bomb on a school sheltering Palestinians, killing 100 People. The MK-84 is one of the most destructive bombs in Western Armies, and the heaviest bomb that F-16s can carry
Perhaps you’re among those who no longer want to hear bad news. Just in Turkish news, neither the efforts of animal lovers to prevent what is almost a revenge massacre against animals, nor imprisoned lawmaker Can Atalay’s right to parliamentary immunity, nor the imprisonment of Osman Kavala and Selahattin Demirtaş, nor the increasing poverty of the public, nor anything about Israel’s massacre in Gaza is something you want to hear. Feeling overwhelmed? Then please, read this; the story of the MK-84 bomb.
On August 10th, Israeli warplanes dropped three bombs on a building in Gaza’s Daraj district. The building belonged to the al-Tebin school. But at that moment, it was a shelter for hundreds of Palestinians whose homes in other areas had been destroyed.
Agencies reported that at least 100 people were killed; it was at dawn prayer time.
Israel used the MK-84 bomb, considered the heaviest bomb that F-16 planes can carry, in the attack.
Condemning the attack as Israel’s “new crime against humanity,” Türkiye also implied the United States when it declared “those who take no steps to stop Israel as complicit”.
Israel has Rights, Palestine does not
Just two days earlier, on August 8th, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s foreign policy advisor, Phil Gordon, who is rumored to be either Secretary of State or National Security Advisor if Harris wins the presidency on November 5th, stated that Harris was against the idea of an arms embargo on Israel. According to this, some Democratic voters wanted this issue to be discussed in a separate meeting, but Harris rejected it, citing the danger from Iran and Israel’s right to self-defense.
Israel had the right to defend itself, but Palestine did not. For Harris, seen as the hope of progressive, secular, and democratic American voters against Donald Trump, the rights of Palestinians under attack were limited to delivering food and “humanitarian aid” to those who survived the bombings.
The Netanyahu government’s use of the MK-84 bomb, rather than another type of bomb, against Palestinians sheltering in a school building was almost like a challenge, saying, “I’ll do what I want; the U.S. has my back.”
This is because on May 10th, President Joe Biden had suspended the U.S. administration’s delivery of the 2000-pound (approximately 907 kg) MK-48 bomb to Israel; he did not want the bomb used in Rafah.
The MK-84 does not discriminate
This is because two days earlier, on May 8th, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had said in a Senate speech that the use of MK-84 bombs in residential areas was problematic, as with its incredible destructive power, it could create a 4.5-meter crater and indiscriminately kill everyone within a 350-meter radius. Instead, they could provide Israel with bombs that had less destructive power but more accuracy.
On the other hand, it was announced that the U.S. had delivered over 10,000 of the 2000-pound MK-84 bombs to Israel before the delivery was suspended, following Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7th.
The three bombs dropped by Israeli jets on the al-Tebin school on Saturday were among those 10,000-plus bombs.
It was almost as if the Netanyahu government was signaling to the U.S. that it wanted more of these bombs.
After all, new threats had emerged from Iran following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31st. Sending new aircraft carriers to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf and deploying the F-22 fighter jets, the most exclusive aircraft that the U.S. had not even sold to Israel, in the region were not enough.
Even if you don’t want to hear it
The MK-84 is one of the most effective bombs known as “Bunker busters.” It was designed not for school buildings but for military underground bunkers made of reinforced concrete. It is one of the most destructive bombs in Western armies. It was first used by the U.S. in the Vietnam War in the 1970s, later in the Iraq invasion, the Afghanistan war, and against the Houthis in Yemen.
It was most recently used by Israel against a school where Palestinians whose homes had been destroyed were taking refuge.
But even if you don’t want to hear it, evil continues, and if one day, evil comes knocking on your door, you may not even know that no one is left who wants to hear that news.
SOURCE:
https://yetkinreport.com/en/2024/08/11/100-lives-lost-the-story-behind-israels-mk-84-bombing-of-a-school-in-gaza/
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American MK-84 bomb Dropped by Israel on Gaza Baptist Hospital - video 3:48 m
Posted By: GeorgeEatonDate: Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 19:21:05
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Oct 18, 2023
The MK-84 air bomb provided by America was dropped by Israel on Al-Ahly Baptist Hospital in Gaza Strip, which killed hundreds of people. Many reports and videos prove that Zionists used MK-84, it cannot be attributed to the capabilities of Palestinian fighters such as Hamas rockets from Israeli accusations.
My comment: From my home in the northwest usa, it is not possible for me to arrive at a definitive conclusion regarding the bombing of the baptist hospital in Gaza. I have seen both sides of the issue and have no choice but to place the subject "on the shelf" as inconclusive until more proof is available.
But I do believe that many are missing the real issue here. It is better to set aside this one event for the moment and focus on the collective evidence of the broad punishment of the Palestinian people.
Israel told the people in Gaza to leave the northern zone, and then they bombed them in the central Gaza areas. The Gazans evacuated to the only border gate next to Egypt, then Israel bombed them there as well. Even the ambulances were targeted by Israel, with the loss of 35 being destroyed while carrying the wounded to hospitals.
It is obvious by the facts that this is a program of genocide. And yet the US at the UN vetoed a humanatarian cease fire to get food and water to the Gazans in Southern Gaza. The Palestinians in Gaza are drinking sea water now, to try to survive as long as they can.
Personally I don't believe in this war at all. Fighting against the Israelis is not the answer and won't solve anything. I also do not support a 2 state solution, it is a fantasy that the Israelis simply won't allow. After all they believe themselves to be superior beings and the Palestinians to be nothing more than "cattle", and their religion teaches them this. By their own actions and laws they are ruling an apartheid government, and the non-Jew is a second class citizen. The truth is, our politicians are finaced and controlled by those that run Israel.
The Zionists with the support of Britain and the Rothschilds financed and organzed the bloodly overthrow of the Palestinain government in 1948, where Jews, Christians and Muslims used to live together in peace.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians were murdered in that war. From that moment forward that land area belongs to the Israelis and the wealthy elite that finance its existance. Behind them is all the riches and weapons of war to defend that occupied, apartheid state. It is foolhardy and suicidal for the Palestinians to fight against those that rule that area.
Is their god big enough that he can bless them in another location? They must ask themselves, is this one desert area the only place on earth their god can allow them to exist - and suffer under tyranny and be victims of abuse and death from one generation to another?
How many children do they have to sacrifice to the god of war to find peace?
IMO the Palestinians should emigrate from that area and re-establish their future in a new land away from war and the demon-like leaders that promote slavery and death. Let god alone judge the nations and see that in time, evil will self destruct. If god is to bless Israel let it be blessed without the use of whipping boys and the abuse of women and children living in squalor for 75 years. GE
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https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=231009
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American MK-84 Bomb Dropped by ‘Israel’ on Gaza Baptist Hospital
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https://thewhiterose.uk/american-mk-84-bomb-dropped-by-israel-on-gaza-baptist-hospital/
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Who Bombed Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital: Three Investigations Offer Answers
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Multiple investigations debunk the Israeli army’s claims regarding the massive explosion that struck the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians, mostly women and children.
On Tuesday, October 17, a massive airstrike hit the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians.
Initially, a top aide for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hananya Naftali, took responsibility for the attack, stating in a tweet:
“Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza. A multiple number of terrorists are dead. It’s heartbreaking that Hamas is launching rockets from hospitals, Mosques, schools and using civilians as human shields.”
The tweet was quickly deleted, however, and a new Israeli version emerged.
In the following hours, Israel said that the mass killing of Palestinians in Al-Ahli was a result of a misfired rocket launched by the Palestinian group, Islamic Jihad.
Since then, many attempted to answer the question: who bombed the Christian medical center?
Below, are the summaries of three different investigations that refuted the Israeli version of events. They also prove that the Israeli narrative on the unprecedented massacre of civilians was, in fact, fabricated.
1. Forensic Architecture
A joint analysis conducted by the independent university-based research agency, Forensic Architecture, Al-Haq and Earshot.ngo “casts significant doubt” on the Israeli account.
“3D analysis shows patterns of radial fragmentation on the southwest side of the impact crater, as well as a shallow channel leading into the crater from the northeast,” Forensic Architecture wrote in a series of posts on the social media platform X.
It added,
“In reviewing our analysis, investigator & explosive weapons expert @CobbSmith agrees the fragmentation patterns may indicate the projectile came from the northeast—the direction of the Israeli-controlled side of the Gaza perimeter—and not from the west, as claimed by the IOF.”
According to Forensic Architecture, the “analysis of the crater size suggests a munition larger than eg a Spike or Hellfire missile commonly used by IOF drones.”
The Israeli army’s claim that the missile that hit the hospital came from the south-west was also refuted by Earshot.ngo, which performed independent audio analysis.
Earshot also analyzed the recording released by the Israeli army of an alleged exchange between members of Hamas implicating the Islamic Jihad in the attack. According to Earshot, “this recording was manipulated and cannot be used as a credible source of evidence”.
2. Sanad Agency
Another investigation, carried out by Sanad Agency, found out that all the rockets launched toward Israel from the besieged Gaza Strip before the attack on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital were intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome system.
“The investigation reveals that Israeli statements seem to have misinterpreted the evidence to build a story that one of the flashes recorded by several sources was a rocket misfire,” Al Jazeera reported, adding:
“Based on a detailed review of all videos, Sanad’s analysts conclude that the flash Israel attributed to a misfire was in fact consistent with Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system intercepting a missile fired from the Gaza Strip and destroying it in mid-air.”
3. Ammunition Specialist
In an interview with the Turkish Daily Sabah newspaper, retired military officer and ammunition specialist Engin Yiğit said that,
“Bombs with proximity fuses or proximity sensors may not create craters where they explode.”
This was a response to the Israeli army’s imagery, claiming that the explosion could not have been the result of an airstrike, due to the absence of visible deep craters.
“The hospital attack in Gaza may have been similar. How high the bomb explodes can be set by the user,” Yiğit noted.
Yiğit went as far as providing an early hypothesis, suggesting that it is strongly possible that the attack was carried out with an MK-84 guided bomb.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
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