Heavy American bombs were sent to Israel from this airport in order to bomb Iran.
The American newspaper Hayrot revealed in an investigation that an Israeli air transport company transferred several tons of heavy bomb parts and ammunition guidance equipment to Israel through the John F. Kennedy in New York at the height of the war against Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.
From this study, based on open source data received from a research unit in the field of transportation, it appears that Challenge Airlines, based in Israel, transferred during three flights last spring the body of BLU-109 rock crushing bombs; The bombs weigh about 2,000 pounds each, equivalent to about 907 kilograms.
In recent years, this type of heavy ammunition has been linked to attacks in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Iran, which have led to the death of martyrs and the injury of a large number of people.
This company has also delivered more than 100 JDAM instruction sets; Equipment used to convert conventional unguided bombs into guided munitions with a GPS global positioning system. Most of these sets were designed for MK-84 bombs weighing about 2,000 pounds.
Based on the data reviewed, from December 22, 2024 to June 7, 2026, 109 shipments of Hedayat kits were sent from John F. Canadian to Tel Aviv.
In total, during this period the mentioned company transferred 175,884 pounds of BLU-109 bomb bodies and more than five million pounds of guidance assemblies. Hayroot announced that it had independently examined some of the data provided in this context.
This newspaper quoted Josh Paul, a former US State Department official who resigned in protest of sending weapons to Israel during the Gaza war, writing that 2,000-pound bombs pose a great risk to civilians and cannot be used selectively in dense urban environments.
Paul said the US military only used two bombs of this weight during the operation against ISIS around the Iraqi city of Mosul, due to the widespread dangers of using such munitions in residential areas.