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The London-based Guardian revealed that the Israeli occupation army used heavy and indiscriminate munitions in the bombing of the Al-Baqa café overlooking the Gaza City beach, Monday evening, killing dozens of civilians. This incident could be classified as a war crime under international law.
According to an analysis of photographs from the attack site conducted by the newspaper, munitions experts confirmed that the shrapnel found at the site belonged to an American MK-82 bomb, a multi-purpose bomb weighing approximately 230 kilograms and producing a massive blast wave with a wide dispersal of shrapnel.
The newspaper added that the use of this type of munition in a densely-populated civilian area, such as the seaside café, “reflects a disproportionate use of force and raises serious legal and ethical questions about the intent and nature of the attack.”
Medicine sources in Gaza, however, reported that the initial toll from the attack was at least 39 dead and more than 100 wounded in less than an hour. The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza said, “The health situation is completely out of control, and we are forced to differentiate between the wounded according to the severity of their conditions.”
He explained that most of those injured in the bombing are critically injured, stressing that basic medical supplies are running out and that health facilities are close to running out of fuel, threatening to shut them down within hours.
The attack on the Al-Baqaa café comes within the context of an ongoing Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip, amid growing international condemnation of the repeated targeting of civilians and the use of heavy weapons in densely populated areas.
Since 7 October, 2023, the occupying forces, with full American support, have continued to commit crimes of genocide in Gaza, leaving more than 191,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced as reported in Quds Press.
