Euro-Med reports israeli bombing in Gaza equivalent to two nuclear bombs

The organization said that the amount is equivalent to two nuclear bombs.

The Geneva-based human rights group said in a statement on Thursday the ZOF has admitted bombing over 12,000 targets in the besieged Gaza Strip with a record tally of bombs exceeding 10 kilograms of explosives per individual. 

The Euro-Med Monitor highlighted that the weight of the nuclear bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II in August 1945 was estimated at about 15,000 tons of explosives.

“Considering the technological development of the effectiveness of bombs, the explosives dropped on Gaza may be twice of a nuclear bomb, which means that the destructive power of the explosives dropped on Gaza exceeds what was dropped on Hiroshima”, The Monitor said, noting that the area of the Japanese city is 900 square kilometers, while the area of Gaza does not exceed 360 kilometers.

The statement underlined that israel uses bombs with huge destructive power, some of which ranges from 150-1,000 kilograms, referring to the statement of Israeli War Minister Yoav Galant who said that more than 10,000 bombs were dropped on Gaza City alone. 

The human rights organization mentioned that israel's use of internationally banned weapons in its attacks on the Gaza Strip has been documented, especially the use of cluster and phosphorus bombs, which is a waxy toxic substance that reacts quickly with oxygen and causes severe second- and third-degree burns. 

The Euro-Med Monitor’s team has documented cases of injuries among the wounded due to israeli air strikes similar to those caused by dangerous cluster bombs, as they contain small, high-explosive bombs with shrapnel penetrating and causing explosions inside the body, leaving it with severe burns that lead to skin melting and sometimes to death. In addition, these fragments cause strange swelling and poisoning in the body, including transparent fragments that do not appear on x-rays.

Euro-Med Monitor further stressed that israel’s destructive and arbitrary attacks come in violation of the international humanitarian law which stipulates that the protection of civilians is obligatory in all cases and under any circumstances, and that killing civilians is considered a war crime in both international and non-international armed conflicts, and may amount to a crime against humanity.

The Euro-Med Monitor called for the formation of an independent international investigation committee into the volume of explosives and the internationally prohibited weapons israel has been using against civilians in the Gaza Strip. It also called on the international community to hold those responsible for such inhuman attacks accountable and to take the necessary measures that guarantee achieving justice for the Palestinian victims. (ILKHA)