Tungsten has the highest melting point of all metals. It’s used to harden steel for missiles like those designed to deliver the nuclear weapons if, as he speculated at the United Nations recently, President Trump decides to “annihilate” Iran.

Tungsten is also vital for smaller lethal weapons like Israel’s M329 missile, which is 750 mm long and weighs 27 kg. Inside the missile shell are capsules which explode and spray tiny tungsten cubes for 20 metres in all directions. Tungsten cubes are used by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza and are particularly lethal for children.

Orthopaedic surgeon Mark Perlmutter worked there and told The Guardian that “X-rays showed demolished bones with a pinhole wound on one side, a pinhole on the other, and a bone that looks like a tractor trailer drove over it.”

Perlmutter said that many children hit by pieces of tungsten died. “Most of the kids that survived had neurologic injuries and vascular injuries, a major cause of amputation. The blood vessels or the nerves get hit, and they come in a day later and the leg is dead or the arm is dead.”

As of one month ago, 1134 children have undergone amputation (https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/7126/Gaza:-Israel-denies-treatment-and-dignity-to-children-left-amputees-by-its-genocide). That will give you some idea how many thousands of children have become amputees or died from loss of limbs since the Gaza genocide began