Polish state-owned firm supplying explosives to Israel for Gaza genocide: Report

An investigation conducted by several pro-Palestine organizations has uncovered that a Polish state-owned enterprise is providing the explosive material, Trinitrotoluene (TNT), for the Mk-80 bomb series, the primary munitions being deployed by Israel in its devastating genocidal war on Gaza.

The report, published on Tuesday by People’s Embargo for Palestine (PEP), Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Shadow World Investigations (SWI), and Movement Research Unit (MRU), explicitly names Nitro-Chem Chemical Plant.

The firm has been supplying the United States arms companies with TNT for use in military shells, bombs, and grenades, which are subsequently exported to Israel, especially since October 7, 2023, when the regime launched its genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip.

Nitro-Chem is a major chemical and arms industry corporation fully owned by the Polish Armaments Group (PAG), a holding established by the Polish government in 2013 to consolidate its state-owned defense sector companies.

The report findings revealed that 90% of TNT imported by the United States, which has no domestic production capability for the substance, originates from Poland.

Furthermore, the investigation asserts that Nitro-Chem has also been selling explosives, including TNT, directly to the Israeli regime.

Nadya Tannous, an organizer with the PYM, commented on the gravity of the findings: “This report decisively implicates Nitro-Chem and the Polish government as a critical link in facilitating the supply chain of genocide.”

Tannous stressed that while United Nations experts have determined Israel is committing genocidal acts in Gaza and have called upon all states to uphold their legal obligations under the Genocide Convention, the report provides evidence of Poland’s direct role “in the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.”

Since the beginning of the Gaza genocide, the Israeli armed forces have relied extensively on the Mk-80 bomb series, manufactured by General Dynamics, the world’s fifth-largest weapons producer.

Video evidence has confirmed the presence of unexploded Mk-84 bombs, the largest weapon in the series, with clear markings indicating production by General Dynamics, confirming their usage in Gaza.

The Mk-84 possesses enormous destructive capability, with a lethal radius of approximately 360 meters and an injury radius extending up to 800 meters from the point of detonation.

General Dynamics has been procuring TNT for the production of the Mk-80 bomb series from Nitro-Chem since at least 2016.

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The Polish company’s supply agreements with the United States and Israel have continued unabated, despite the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issuing emergency measures in January 2024 to compel the occupying regime to prevent genocidal acts in the enclave.

In April 2024, Nitro-Chem further solidified its role by signing a contract with Paramount Enterprises International (PEI), a shipping conglomerate, to supply TNT for the Mk-80 series.

Shortly after this agreement, the United States government authorized the transfer of 1,800 Mk-84 bombs to Israel.

The use of TNT, an extremely toxic substance, in these bombs to target and destroy civilian infrastructure across the territory, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), amounts to war crimes against humanity.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reports that the deployment of these weapons has inflicted unprecedented levels of environmental damage, contaminating soil, freshwater supplies, and the coastline throughout the enclave.

According to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (UMHRM), Israel dropped over 25,000 tons of explosives on the Strip, an amount equivalent to two nuclear bombs, within just the first month of the genocide.

Israel has now killed at least 69,490 Palestinians, including 21,000 children, and wounded an additional 179,000 people since it commenced the genocide in Gaza.

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