Amnesty: 43 Palestinians killed in two air strikes with US weapons

Amnesty International has found evidence that the Israeli military used US-made precision-guided munitions in two air strikes on Gaza in October, killing 43 civilians in their homes.

The discovery of the weapon fragments in the rubble of the homes comes as a separate investigation uncovered that the US has rushed orders of precision-guided missiles to Israel since 7 October.

US-based NGO Women for Weapons Trade Transparency (W2T2), citing a State Department source, reported that US officials had invoked a section of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act to allow the transfer of missiles.

W2T2 have called on the US to immediately halt the transfer of precision-guided missiles to Israel, with Amnesty calling for the strikes to be investigated as war crimes.

“The fact that US-made munitions are being used by Israeli military in unlawful attacks with deadly consequences for civilians should be an urgent wake-up call to the Biden administration," said Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary general.

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