After the United States dropped an atomic bomb named “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during the WWII on August 6, 1945, the explosion — which caused widespread death and destruction throughout the city — was estimated to have amounted to 15 kilotons (the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT).

Nearly 80 years later, the explosive force of the bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes on Palestine’s Gaza since Hamas’s cross-border attack on October 7 is “equivalent to the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima”, the head of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Salama Marouf, said.

Following the October 7 attacks that killed 1,400 Israelis, Tel Aviv’s retaliatory strikes on the besieged enclave have killed at least 6,546 Palestinians, including more than 2,600 children, with the combined death toll now totalling nearly 8,000.