“We found nothing of Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part,” Gaza resident Yasmin Mahani told Al Jazeera.
Residential tower in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombardment on the morning of Oct. 8, 2023. (Ashraf Amra /United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0 igo)
By Brad Reed
Common Dreams
An Al Jazeera investigation based on evidence collected by the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip has concluded that nearly 3,000 Palestinians were “evaporated” by Israel using thermal weapons — some of them supplied by the U.S.
Al Jazeera reported Tuesday the investigation found that 2,842 Palestinians were killed due to Israel’s “systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit].”
The heat generated by these weapons is so intense, investigators noted, that they leave behind almost no detectable human remains other than blood stains or pieces of flesh.
Israel’s use of such weapons was flagged last year in a social media post by Omar Hamad, a Gaza pharmacist who posted a video purportedly showing a thermobaric bomb being detonated in Beit Hanoun.
Israel is using thermobaric (vacuum) bombs in Beit Hanoun. These are shock waves that spread in a circular and low pattern near the ground surface, preceding the appearance of the dust cloud by far, indicating a speed faster than the speed of sound.
This is genocide. pic.twitter.com/tA7jC61g33
— Omar Hamad | ???????? ? (@OmarHamadD) July 13, 2025
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Gaza Civil Defense, said that the investigation was not a mere estimate of Palestinians incinerated by thermal and thermobaric weapons, but the result of painstaking forensic work.
“We enter a targeted home and cross-reference the known number of occupants with the bodies recovered,” Basal explained. “If a family tells us there were five people inside, and we only recover three intact bodies, we treat the remaining two as ‘evaporated’ only after an exhaustive search yields nothing but biological traces—blood spray on walls or small fragments like scalps.”
Unlike the explosions caused by traditional bombs, the thermobaric weapons used by Israel in Gaza first disperse clouds of fuel in a given area that are then ignited to create an enormous and intense fireball.
The investigation found that the fuel typically used in Israeli thermobaric weapons was tritonal, a mixture consisting of 80 percent TNT and 20 percent aluminum powder often found in U.S.-manufactured weapons such as the Mark 84 aircraft bomb.
Dr Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that the heat generated by these weapons is so intense that any living creatures’ bodily fluids will immediately boil.
“When a body is exposed to energy exceeding 3,000 degrees combined with massive pressure and oxidation, the fluids boil instantly,” al-Bursh explained. “The tissues vaporize and turn to ash. It is chemically inevitable.”
Gaza resident Yasmin Mahani told Al Jazeera that her son, Saad, was incinerated by a 2024 Israeli strike that hit a school in the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.
“We found nothing of Saad,” Mahani said. “Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part.”
Brad Reed is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
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Just one of a multiple of Chemical, Biological, Super TNT Bombs/Block Busters and Atomic and Hydrogen Doomsday devices.
A multi trillion dollar generating doomsday Industry dedicated to Siva and unspeakable death and horror.
Now these “people” led by the Board of Peace are about to unleash this terror on another Country in the name of protecting us from evil.
Thermobaric weapons operate on the same principle that produces dust explosions in sawmills, grain elevators, flour mills, sugar refineries, etc. that don’t do conscientious dust removal — microscopic airborne particles of refined carbohydrates with a large surface-area-to-volume ratio in sufficient concentrations, with a single spark, can produce devastating explosions. Evil stuff.
So where’s Mason? Vaporized….
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In Australia at present we are hosting the Israeli President Isaac Herzog who was invited by the Labor government after a mass shotting in Bondi.
All we see now are protests from people who are arguing that the Israeli President Isaac Herzog should be arrested for war crimes Israel ‘Evaporated’ Nearly 3,000 Palestinians in Gaza February 11, 2026, certainly supports the case for an arrest.
Although the Australian government no matter the party leading it have a back bone made of jelly and very little or no moral courage to support a case of arrest.
Zionist organisation are dictating to our Government what it wants done and how it wants it done, appeasement to organisation like this has never worked in the past and will not work in the future.
What kind of people design and produce such weapons? They are the real guilty people. If the weapons are illegal, why were they not destroyed?
Israelis. Israelis do not destroy illegal weapons – sadly, they use them.
Heartless!
These Zionists are human beings defending themselves and their stolen lands????
As far as I’m concerned the perpatrators of these crimes [designing, manufacturing, selling, and using such horendous weapons] do not qualify as ‘human beings’. Nor do their governments that allow and support the use of the weapons, and the associated atrocities.
They surpass even the worst atrocities of the Nazis in WWII, driven by the worst religious ideology possible – that of considering everyone else as low-life to be exterminated.
Why isn’t this reported in the major US news outlets? Must we conclude that they are corrupted by the Israel government?
Hopefully, those Israeli monsters will destruct. They are the most malignant force in the world….Ally of USA USA USA!
Temps reaching 3,500 degrees. Remember when US condemned Assad 4 using Chemical weapons on his ppl, true or not? This is worse, & IS true. Not a sound fr US – we supplied them. How evil we’ve become.
Sadly, Israel, living on stolen land, is encouraged, not dissuaded by the US in its activities – I don’t know why – perhaps the US is frightened of AIPAC – or simply in a mess over its foreign policy.
There is a solution to Israel’s dilemma – not more chemical weapons but a two-state solution: sharing a land which both Israelis and Palestinians feel is theirs: Israelis by conquest and Palestinians by over 200 years of settlement. It is the US who should be the ones to encourage such an agreement.