from Sputnik News:
US President Donald Trump confirmed Saturday that his administration had lifted restrictions on the delivery of 2,000-pound aerial bombs to Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu has formally thanked Trump for lifting restrictions on the export of some 1,800 MK 84 bombs to Israel.
Earlier, Joe Biden imposed a symbolic ban on MK 84 deliveries to Israel last May amid the IAF’s heavy use of the munitions to flatten Gaza.
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Researchers from Harvard’s FXB Center for Health found last fall that between October 7 and November 17, 2023, Israel dropped 592 MK 84s within range of critical hospital infrastructure.
![Proximity of bomb craters to hospitals and within the Israeli military designated evacuation zone in the Gaza Strip. Map from the October 2024 Harvard study Are hospitals collateral damage? Proximity of bomb craters to hospitals and within the Israeli military designated evacuation zone in the Gaza Strip. Map from the October 2024 Harvard study Are hospitals collateral damage? - Sputnik International, 1920, 27.01.2025](https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e9/01/1b/1121505714_0:0:1650:1269_1920x0_80_0_0_13988de18061482b9953d59a0225c6a7.png.webp)
Proximity of bomb craters to hospitals and within the Israeli military designated evacuation zone in the Gaza Strip. Map from the October 2024 Harvard study “Are hospitals collateral damage?”
© Photo : Harvard University FXB Center for Health & Human Rights
The study determined the bombs could kill people 360 m from the point of detonation, and cause injury at ranges up to 800 m away. Of 36 of Gaza’s hospitals, nine had at least one MK 84 crater in lethal range, two with 21-23 craters. 38 bombs were dropped within an 800 m radius identified by Israel as an ‘evacuation zone’.
![Distances between hospitals and most proximal bomb crater for all hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Calculations from October 2024 Harvard Study Are hospitals collateral damage? Distances between hospitals and most proximal bomb crater for all hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Calculations from October 2024 Harvard Study Are hospitals collateral damage? - Sputnik International, 1920, 27.01.2025](https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e9/01/1b/1121505913_0:0:1650:1232_1920x0_80_0_0_1b84e92105be8c5652ca1e29ee870934.png.webp)
Distances between hospitals and most proximal bomb crater for all hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Calculations from October 2024 Harvard Study “Are hospitals collateral damage?”
© Photo : Harvard University FXB Center for Health & Human Rights
Between late 2023 and mid-2024, the IAF dropped more MK 84s and other munitions on the 365 km2 strip than the combined tonnage dropped on London, Hamburg and Dresden in WWII, hitting an array of civilian targets including hospitals, mosques and Gaza’s three churches.