Jewish Voice for Peace: US ‘actively assisting’ Israel to commit genocide

The United States is not only allowing the Israeli regime to commit genocide, but also actively assisting it, the Jewish Voice for Peace has said.

“It’s well past time for a weapons embargo. We demand a complete end to US funding, arming, and backing of the state of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians,” the American anti-Zionist left-wing Jewish advocacy organization said in a post on X.

Pointing to Washington’s ironclad support for the Tel-Aviv regime’s genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip, the organization further demanded “a complete end to US funding, arming, and backing” of the Israeli regime’s “oppression of Palestinians.”

Coinciding with the Israeli military's bombing of the al-Tabaeen school in Gaza City's Al-Daraj neighborhood—which claimed the lives of nearly 100 Palestinians, mostly women and children praying the pre-dawn prayer—the US announced its latest military package for Tel Aviv worth $3.5 billion.

A media report also referred to the use of US-made GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb in the Israeli carnage at the school.

Just days before the bombing, approximately 1,000 GBU-39 bombs had been delivered to the Israeli regime in two installments, along with 100,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition.

The GBU-39 is a 250-pound precision-guided glide bomb manufactured by Boeing, an American military contractor based in Virginia. It allows warplanes to carry out numerous bombings with high precision, according to military experts.

Boeing produces Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) and GBU-39 bombs, with a significant portion supplied to the Israeli regime for use against Palestinians in Gaza.

Boeing secured a $33 million contract for Small Diameter Bomb I (SDB-I), also known as the GBU-39, in November of last year, just two months into Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.

The Israeli bombs dropped on the school, according to media reports citing Gaza government authorities, were weighing 2,000 pounds each.

“The Israeli military has bombarded nearly every inch of Gaza with US-made bombs. Israeli forces have dropped over 70,000 bombs on Gaza in the past ten months — making it the deadliest bombing campaign in the 21st century.” 

The organization also highlighted the Israeli military’s “deliberate targeting” of all life in Gaza, saying "in the past ten months, we have witnessed the Israeli military’s deliberate targeting of all life in Gaza, including schools, refugee camps, hospitals, mosques, churches, and designated humanitarian zones."

As the reports show, the Tel Aviv regime used GBU-39, MK-82, and MK-84 bombs for the first time in a large scale during the bombing of Al-Ahli Hospital on October 17, 2023.

Back in May, video footage analysis revealed that the devastating airstrike on a camp sheltering displaced people in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, again involved US-made GBU-39 bombs.

The bombing occurred near the logistics base of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Tal al-Sultan, southern Gaza Strip, and killed dozens.

Also in June, an Israeli strike on a UN school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, which killed several Palestinians, including women and children, was also carried out using GBU-39 bombs.

Footage of the debris, filmed by Palestinian journalist Emad Abu Shawiesh and later reported by many media outlets, showed remnants of GBU-39 bombs used in the attack.

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