Europe’s Largest Missile Maker Supplying Parts to Israel for Bombs Used in Gaza

Date: 18 July 2025 - 22:58

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LONDON (Dispatches) – Parts made by Europe’s largest missile maker are being used in bombs launched by the Zionist regime’s in airstrikes on Gaza, an investigation has found.
A joint report by The Guardian, Disclose and Follow the Money discovered that components produced by MBDA are used to construct the GBU-39 bomb.
Wing-like parts, called Diamond-Blacks and manufactured at MBDA’s plant in Alabama, are fitted to the 250 lb GBU-39, which is made by Boeing, allowing the bomb to manoeuver mid-air toward targets.
The GBU-39 is sent to the Israeli-occupied territories as part of the U.S. military aid program, bought directly from Boeing and transferred from American military stocks.
Deployed aerially from fighter jets over combat zones, an estimated 4,800 have been sent to the occupied territories since the Gaza war began in October 2023.
Open-source analysis found that the weapon has been deployed at least 24 times in Gaza in incidents where civilians, including children, were killed.
The attacks often came at night, targeting shelters including school buildings, camps and a mosque. At least 500 people have been killed in the identified cases, including more than 100 children.
In another development, hundreds of Greeks gathered at Piraeus Port, one of the biggest in Europe, to block a shipment of military-grade steel to the Israeli-occupied territories, Anadolu reports.
The participants, including port workers and members of pro-Palestinian progressive organizations and associations as well as sympathizers of various leftist parties, carried Palestinian flags and banners expressing solidarity with the Palestinian cause and denouncing Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.
Markos Bekris, president of ENEDEP, the port’s container handling workers’ union, said the action intends to block the transfer of five containers of military grade-steel that arrived from India to another ship destined for the occupied territories.
“We absolutely do not want our country and our port to be involved in this war or in the transportation of military equipment to be used in the war. We do not want this military equipment to be used against the Palestinian people, who are struggling to establish their own state, nor do we want it to lead to the killing of women and children. We do not stain our hands with the blood of innocent people,” he said.