Japanese PM: More Bombs Dropped on Gaza Than Tokyo During WWII

Date: 29 November 2024 - 22:36

News ID: ۱۳۴۱۲۰

TOKYO (Dispatches) – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed regret over the Zionist regime’s war in the Palestinian-besieged enclave of Gaza, calling it “heartbreaking”, according to local media.
“It is heartbreaking that many times more bombs were dropped on Gaza than on Tokyo in massive U.S. air raids during World War II,” NHK news quoted Ishiba as saying.Ishiba’s remarks came on Thursday after receiving information from Seita Akihiro, health director at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA.
The Israeli army has dropped 18,000 tons of bombs on the Gaza Strip since last October, or about 1.5 times the explosive force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in World War II, according to officials in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
During World War II, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing 140,000 victims. Three days later, another bomb hit Nagasaki, killing an additional 70,000. Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, ending World War II.
However, Ishiba stressed that Tokyo “must continue its assistance” to the UN agency despite Israel banning UNRWA from operating in the country.
Emphasizing the need to maintain UNRWA’s activities, Ishiba said he “will continue to convey Japan’s position on the issue.”
Seita, who is of Japanese origin, told Ishiba that “Japan’s humanitarian assistance is well-received across the world”, NHK news reported.
Israel has launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip following an operation by the Palestinian group Hamas in October last year, killing over 44,300 people, most of them women and children, and injuring over 104,900.
The second year of genocide in Gaza has drawn growing international condemnation, with officials and institutions labeling the attacks and blocking of aid deliveries as a deliberate attempt to destroy a population.