Japanese pro-Palestine organisers have campaigned in Hiroshima for its city officials to respond to Israel’s relentless military offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to Japanese news publication Mainichi Shimbun on Saturday.
The activist group Hiroshima-Palestine Vigil Community was reported to have demonstrated at the Atomic Bomb Dome nightly to protest the war on Gaza, with the group also questioning Hiroshima mayor Kazumi Matsui over his silence on Israel’s atrocities in the Palestinian enclave.
The Atomic Bomb Dome, also known as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, represents the last standing structure in the area where the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped in 1945.
Nearly 79 years later, Hiroshima citizens are urging the city that has long stood for world peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons to break its silence on the brutal conflict in Gaza.
On Tuesday, four members of Hiroshima-Palestine Vigil Community hand-delivered letters addressed to Matsui and the Hiroshima Municipal Assembly and sought responses about the city’s inactivity.
A list of questions derived from the group’s letter was read aloud by the campaigners.
“Do you recognize that the Israeli attack on Gaza is a large-scale military attack against civilians in violation of international law and also a genocide to eliminate a group of people?,” one asked.
“Are you aware that the current situation in Gaza is a nuclear issue?”
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