American ammunition was used in the attack on the school that killed 22 people.

“We are pulling an arm and a leg out of the rubble”

According to experts, American-made ammunition was used in an Israeli strike on a school in Gaza, which killed 22 person.

Weapons experts have identified the remains of two US-made munitions used in Sunday's Israeli missile attack on a school in central Gaza, which, according to local authorities, killed at least 22 people.

CNN reports that hundreds of people were sheltering in a former school in Nuseirat when two rockets were fired at it.

CNN video from the scene on Sunday showed an ambulance approaching the school and People are frantically clearing debris and destroying temporary shelters in the schoolyard.

A person interviewed by CNN at the scene said there was no warning. “We pull out an arm and a leg from under the rubble. Civilians who did nothing wrong.”

The man echoed what many in Gaza have been saying in recent days amid Israeli military orders for civilians to leave certain areas in central and southern Gaza, saying: «We are displaced and we will stay here. If they want to strike again, let them strike again. We are staying, even if they want to destroy all of Gaza and build a new one and call it Netanyahu's Gaza, we are staying.»

Abdul Karim Al Assas, a resident of Nuseirat, expressed his despair. “Where should we go? You tell us where to go and we go. This is genocide. Why are Arab countries silent? Don't give us food and water, we need security… Are there resistance fighters here? There are only women, children and old people here.”

Taysir Al Kilani, whose family also took refuge in the school, said: “We all ran away. Then my son appeared with my grandson in his arms, who was wounded and taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital. Then another rocket hit. Netanyahu targets UNRWA schools.”

In a statement about the strike, the Israel Defense Forces said the IAF struck «several terrorists who were operating in the area of ​​the UNRWA Abu Oraiban school building in Nuseirat. The site served as a hideout and operational infrastructure from which attacks were directed and carried out against IDF forces operating in the Gaza Strip.»

CNN could not independently verify whether Hamas militants were present at the site.

Weapons researchers contacted by CNN were able to identify parts of the missiles used in the attack.

Patrick Senft, research coordinator at Armament Research Services (ARES), warned that “many parts are too damaged to be recovered.” identify.”

But one of the pictures, he said, showed “the characteristic propeller housings, fin slots and internal tail mechanism of the GBU-39.” The GBU-39 is a 250-pound small-diameter air-to-surface guided munition manufactured by Boeing.

Trevor Ball, who was a senior member of the U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team, agreed that that the images likely show part of a small-diameter bomb body.

Ball told CNN that fragments of a US-made Hellfire missile were also found at the scene, including the upper part of the guidance system: “There was probably Other munitions are involved as from the photographs I have seen the damage to the roof from the later impact is minimal.”