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Live updates from Israel and Gaza: 3 dead and 15 injured in Israeli attack on another UNRWA school

A weapon used in an attack on a UNRWA school housing displaced people on June 6 appears to be of U.S. manufacture, three ammunition experts told ABC News.

Journalist Emad Abu Shawiesh recorded a video of weapons fragments at the UNRWA al Sardi school building in Nuseirat in the Gaza Strip on June 6.

The weapon fragments seen in the video are consistent with the tip of a U.S.-made GBU-39 small-diameter bomb, Trevor Ball, a former U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal specialist, told ABC News.

The GBU-39 was apparently also used in a deadly attack on May 26 in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, according to Ball and another munitions expert who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the issue.

Mark Hiznay, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Crisis, Conflict and Weapons Division, told ABC News the image shows the remains of a GBU-39.

NR Jenzen-Jones, a director at the consulting firm Armament Research Services, said the image was consistent with the Small Diameter Bomb series.

“Given what we know about the Israeli Defense Forces’ arsenal and munitions used in previous attacks, the remains most likely come from a GBU-39 SDB and include part of the tip (front section) of the bomb,” Jenzen-Jones said, adding that other munitions may have been used in the attack but he had not yet assessed this in detail.

-ABC News Chris Looft