Ahlulbayt News Agency: In Gaza, Palestine, three Palestinian women get martyred every hour as a result of Israeli airstrikes, targeting residential homes with incendiary bombs and being trapped in dire conditions; women, who are often harder to rescue from under rubble or fires than men.
The situation in this region has deteriorated to the point where 60,000 pregnant women give birth without any medical supplies or anesthesia, and at least 21 women have lost their lives due to severe hunger.
Palestinian Minister of Women's Affairs, Amal Hammad, believes that the Zionist attacks against Palestinian women and children are planned within the framework of genocide and ethnic cleansing. She says, " Palestinian women in Gaza are now waiting in line for death among the bodies and wounds; whether due to airstrikes, hunger, thirst, or illness."
According to an analysis, this Israeli model of behavior in ethnic and gender cleansing is a copy of the American massacre style in Japan on March 9, 1945. This method of massacre involves the use of bombing on residential homes, resulting in destruction, smoke, and fire. It is carried out, knowing the challenging circumstances that civilians, particularly women, encounter when trying to flee from the bombings.
The story of this massacre dates back to World War II in Japan.
In the face of Japan, there were two viewpoints in the American Air Force. One viewpoint focused on targeted bombings to prevent unnecessary casualties, while the other aimed to push the war towards massive and high-casualty bombings and killing women and children alongside combatant men. Those who opposed targeted bombings generally supported the latter viewpoint.
Until 1945, those believing in the first plan had the power; however, a new commander in the American Air Force changed the approach. Curtis LeMay, an American general, believed that time should not be wasted and that Japan could be defeated with an all-out bombing campaign.
He said: "In this strategy, casualties must be high enough for Japan to no longer have the strength to resist."
Meanwhile, Harvard University laboratories had invented a substance around 1942 that was oddly incendiary; a jelly-like substance called "Napalm" that a few drops of it could burn about 4 square meters of any material. Napalm was water-resistant, produced black and suffocating smoke, and was more effective on women's lungs.
Napalm, with these characteristics, became a suitable option for use in military and warfare industries; an option that could burn the enemy and their homes to ashes.
Besides these details, this important point shouldn't be neglected that, in those days, most houses in Japan were built from wood.
General Lomi, in a bid to make sure of the scale of destruction and harm of his new weapon, ordered a similar model to be built in the US from the Japanese houses to test napalm bombs on them. The result of testing combustive bombs in the US was astounding and the US was assured that in that measure would cause a unique devastation in Japan.
Very soon napalm bombs, alongside magnesium and phosphorus bombs, were dispatched to the deployment of the American bombers in the Pacific Ocean to drop on the Japanese soil. 335 American bombers were equipped with incendiary bombs to carry out a destructive operation.
Shortly after, in midnight of March 9, 1945, this operation began with the flight of fighters from Mariana Islands. General Lomi pursued two goals in carrying out the operation at midnight. Firstly, according to forecasts, the wind was in a direction at that time that it could convey flames to make a fiery whirlwind. Secondly, civilians, especially women, were at home at that time; hence, more Japanese would be killed. Bombardment of Tokyo took nearly 6 hours. Everything happened as the plan and half of the city was burnt down in those hours. The US Air Force dropped approximately 1,700,000 kilograms of incendiary bombs on the people.
Some think that these 6 hours were among the most horrible hours of the history of mankind with the highest number of death-tolls. It was a horrendous operation in which the power and number of bombs were higher even that the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hundreds of civilians were burnt or injured and became homeless.
The result that the United States got from Tokyo bombardment was so desirable that Curtis Lomi, in the following months, carried out the same operation in the cities of Osaka and Kobe and the Japanese industrial ports and burnt down almost 20- 70 percent of this cities with their inhabitants.
The point to note is that he was promoted for his destructive "successes" in the American army to become the commanding general of the US Air Force.
Now the evidence indicates that Israel, making use of this American model against the Japanese people, is surreptitiously implementing this model of gender and racial cleansing against the Palestinian civilians and women.
It appears that history is being repeated and criminals are victimizing innocent people with similar approaches. But the media are just speaking of those whom the owners of power like no matter if it is Japan or Palestine.
Part of this article was adopted from the Iranian Mehr news agency.
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