An investigation conducted by Al-Jazeera revealed the types of destructive bombs used by the Israeli occupation army to destroy the Al-Galaa Tower in the Gaza Strip, which included residential apartments and offices for media networks, including Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press.
The investigation, which was based on military experts ’analysis of images of bombing civilian towers in Gaza, revealed that the bombs used were most likely GBU-31 and GBU-39 heavily-winged bombs. Blast and destroy.
GBU-31 bombs are also known as "JDAM", meaning joint direct attack munitions, and were developed to penetrate heavily fortified military sites.
The analysts' conclusion matches a video posted by the Israeli Air Force Twitter account showing these munitions being loaded onto warplanes.
The GBU-39 winged bombs are known as small diameter bombs and weigh about 110 kilograms.
The occupation air forces completely destroyed the Al-Galaa Tower, last Saturday.
Before the bombing of the tower - which housed the offices of the Al Jazeera network and the Associated Press of America - an Israeli intelligence officer refused to allow the employees in the tower to return to take out some of their possessions and media work tools, as the officer gave them a few minutes in a phone call.
The tower - one of the oldest in the sector - contained 60 apartments, in which families lived, and professional classes of lawyers, doctors and others worked there.
Al-Jazeera Media Network issued a statement confirming that the Israeli army gave the residents of Burj Al-Galaa only a very short time to evacuate the place before its bombardment, considering that "what Israel has done is a barbaric behavior aimed at the safety of our journalists and preventing them from revealing the truth."
The network also held the Israeli government fully responsible, and said, "We will proceed with taking legal measures."