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An alleged U.S. military attack destroyed a warehouse with medical supplies in Puerto La Guaira, Venezuela on January 3, 2026.
According to @camilapress, the U.S. military bombed a medical supplies distribution center, destroying a warehouse with supplies for dialysis patients. The post specified that the attack affected “patients undergoing hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, affecting at least 9,000 kidney patients”.
The governor of La Guaira State, Venezuela @josealejandro.teran posted on his Instagram a video of him walking through an area covered in the burnt remains of different objects, which he identified as the medical supplies warehouse in Puerto La Guaira. In the video he emphasized the impact of the bombing on kidney dialysis patients. Munitions remnants identified by Airwars’ partners at the Open Source Munitions Portal identified fragments of likely Venezuelan surface-to-air missiles, meaning that damage may have occurred from exploding Venezuelan munitions either following or in conjunction with the original strike.
Both sources which reported on the bombing attributed the attack to the U.S. military.
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Munition
Munition remnants were seen in a video posted by La Guaira State governor Jose Alejandro Terán on Instragram taken at the site of the incident and have been identified as either a 9M38- or 9M317-series missile by munitions experts at the Open Source Munitions Portal (OSMP), a joint project between Airwars and the Armament Research Services (ARES). These missiles are predominantly fired from the Buk family of surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, a system known to be in service in Venezuela.
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