Gaza: Six Hiroshimas and Counting
The World Watches as U.S. and Israeli War Tactics Mirror the Darkest Chapters of History
Gaza – PUREWILAYAH.COM —Gaza has become a living graveyard, a strip of land repeatedly pounded until it holds the weight of six Hiroshima bombs—and still, the bombardment continues.
Between October 2023 and April 2025, Emeritus Professor Paul Rogers of the University of Bradford estimates that 70,000 tonnes of explosives have been unleashed on this tiny enclave. To put it plainly: the destructive force dropped on Gaza would be enough to erase entire cities from the map—several times over.
The pattern is chillingly familiar. As in Hiroshima, the target is not simply military positions but the very soul of a people. The bombardment has been relentless, indiscriminate, and systematic. Satellite images show over 60% of northern Gaza’s buildings reduced to rubble—a rate of destruction greater than the Allied firebombing of Dresden, Cologne, and Hamburg during WWII.
The munitions are largely American-made—MK-80 and M117 bombs—delivered with the speed and frequency of a metronome. In just five days, 6,000 bombs fell. That’s one bomb every minute. In less than a month, Gaza endured the explosive force of two Hiroshimas.
And the arsenal hasn’t stopped at “conventional” weapons. Cluster munitions and white phosphorus—both notorious for their indiscriminate carnage—have been rained down on homes, schools, hospitals, and even places of worship.
The parallels have not gone unnoticed. Toshiyuki Mimaki, a survivor of Hiroshima and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, says the images from Gaza are like a mirror of his childhood memories:
“Gaza today is like Japan 80 years ago. In Gaza, bleeding children are being held by their parents… Children lost their fathers in the war and their mothers in the atomic bomb.”
His words slice through the comfortable distance with which the world consumes these horrors.
Yet, unlike Hiroshima, Gaza’s suffering is not a closed chapter in a history book. It is unfolding now—in real time—before a global audience with smartphones in hand. And still, governments look away, excuse, or outright enable the siege. The scale of destruction is not just a tragedy; it is a political choice, executed with precision, financed by allies, and justified in the language of “security.”
The question that remains is not whether Gaza has borne the weight of six Hiroshimas—it has—but how many more the world is willing to watch it endure. (PW)
Source: PressTv
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