In the weeks before the ceasefire, Israel deployed a new weapon: Armoured Personnel Carriers repurposed as explosive-laden bombs.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41094416

Published Dec. 31, 2025

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In the weeks before the ceasefire on October 10, Israel widely deployed a new weapon: M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers repurposed to carry between 1 and 3 tons of explosives, Reuters found.

As Israeli troops pushed toward the centre of Gaza City, these powerful bombs, along with airstrikes and armour-plated bulldozers, leveled swathes of buildings, drone footage and satellite images show.

In most cases, but not all, the inhabitants fled ahead of demolitions after Israeli warnings, residents, Israeli security sources and Gaza authorities said.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Could you even imagine if Palestine sent truck bombs into Israel? “Hamas TERRORISTS commit TERRORISM to TERRORIZE Israel” would be in the news for a week. And those headlines would probably be correct, even in spite of the fact that Israel is an invading, genocidal apartheid state. Meanwhile, this extremely in-depth Reuters article but will quickly be forgotten.

    These aren’t just truck bombs, by the way: they’re made from M113 APCs. Just another way the US is a party to this terroristic genocide.