Nagasaki remembers 70,000 victims of atomic bomb — and Gaza
Nagasaki local government keeps away Israel from the event to commemorate nuclear bombing of Japan by America during World War 2. | Nagasaki has observed "moment of silence" in a ceremony marking the 1945 atomic bombing of the Japanese city by United States in 1945, but the event was skipped by many Western countries because Nagasaki's mayor declined to invite Israel amid its genocidal war on Gaza. During the World War 2, an atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people. A second bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed 70,000 more.