White phosphorus shells used by Israeli forces in an October attack on a Lebanese village that human rights advocates say should be investigated as a war crime were provided by the U.S., a new investigation finds.

According to The Washington Post, production markings on the shells that Israel used on the southern border village of Dhayra indicate that they were made in Louisiana and Arkansas, in 1989 and 1992, arms experts confirmed. At least one of the shells found by the investigation was from the same production batch of white phosphorus that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used in densely populated areas of Gaza in 2009 in extensive attacks that Human Rights Watch has deemed a war crime.

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