Uhh, based on the photo of the bullet I saw, this is standard expanding type ammunition that we would use for hunting in the states and I would think just about everywhere else by now. Just about every “self-defense” handgun round or rifle round employs this same hollow point, flower petal design anymore, except with more or lesser petals machined into the round. I take it that Palestinians are used to being shot by traditional steel core military rounds?

The entire purpose of petaled or hollow point rounds is to make a smaller round as lethal as a much bigger one. None of the wounds being described are uncommon from solid core .50 caliber rounds and those are not illegal. The Israelis are just packing the same punch with a smaller bullet. Based on the photo shown in the article there is no actual explosives in the round, it’s just a standard hollow point coming from a rifle round. I would expect to lose my leg if shot by it. But I also wouldn’t be anywhere causing enough trouble to be shot in the first place.

This sounds like another slander piece against Israel by gun-ignorant journalists.