"Polish company accused of supplying explosives for Israel’s war on Gaza", 18 November 2025

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A report...by a group of pro-Palestinian organisations found...Nitro-Chem to have supplied United States arms companies with trinitrotoluene (TNT) for use in military shells, bombs, and grenades that are exported to Israel...

Poland, the only major TNT producer in the EU and NATO, was identified by the People’s Embargo for Palestine, Palestinian Youth Movement, Shadow World Investigations and Movement Research Unit as the source of the explosive used in the general-purpose Mk 80 series...as well as the penetrator BLU-109 bomb...

Nitro-Chem has also been selling explosives, including TNT, directly to Israel, according to the report...

Since launching its latest war on Gaza in October 2023...the Israeli army has relied heavily on guided and unguided Mk 80 bombs sold by General Dynamics...

A Nitro-Chem spokesperson refused to comment on the claims “taking into consideration sensitive nature of our company’s operations, safety of our state and due the current geopolitical situation”.

Al Jazeera has contacted representatives of the Polish government for a response...

Polish-made TNT also ended up in the penetrator BLU-109 bomb, which can destroy underground and heavily fortified targets, according to information provided to the authors of the report by the bomb’s US manufacturer, General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS), the Polish company Nitro-Chem and US government databases...

In April 2024, Nitro-Chem signed a contract with Paramount Enterprises International to supply TNT for Mk 80 series bombs and, shortly after, the US government approved the transfer of 1,800 Mk 84 bombs to Israel.

Most recently, in April 2025, the company signed its largest contract yet – worth $310m – for the delivery of 18,000 tonnes of TNT in between 2027 and 2029, the report found...