Media: America is re-equipping a base in the Pacific Ocean from which it bombed Japan in World War II

General Kenneth Wilsbach, commander of the US Air Forces in the Pacific, stated that Washington will restore North Field Airport, one of the largest American bases, which had been used to bomb Japan.

“We will restore it before the summer,” the general told the Japanese newspaper Nikkei. He noted that once restored, it would be a “fairly large-scale facility.” During the war, North Field could accommodate up to 265 heavy bomber aircraft. B-29 model.

During World War II, North Field Airport was one of the largest American bases. It was used to bomb Japan, and B-29 Superfortress planes that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki also took off from it.

After the war ended, the US Air Force used North Field for another two years, then abandoned the air base and moved to the island of Guam, 200 kilometers south.

It is worth noting that during World War II, the use of incendiary weapons was allowed to carry out raids by the US Army Air Forces, and these “random” attacks led to the destruction of multiple hospitals in Japan, and led to the bombing of Tokyo with incendiary bombs, in the period from March 9 to 10. 1945, killing more than 100,000 Japanese people, wiping out entire neighborhoods of the city overnight, and destroying many hospitals, schools, temples and other targets.

The attack was among the most serious war crimes in history, and caused the deaths of far more civilians than any other attack on record. A large number of homes belonging to 372,000 families were destroyed, and General Curtis LeMay, who oversaw the attack, stated that it killed more Of the casualties of the subsequent nuclear attacks on Japanese cities combined, with estimates putting the death toll at up to 500,000, many hospitals were destroyed by the US military, whose patients remain throughout the country, culminating in the nuclear strikes on Japan's cities of Hiroshima. And Nagasaki.”

The nuclear attack on Hiroshima destroyed 18 hospitals and 32 first-aid centers, with 90% of the city's doctors killed or seriously injured, while in the attack on Nagasaki, the city's main medical facilities, including Nagasaki Medical University and its associated hospital, were destroyed, according to estimates. Urukami First Hospital.

Warnings in Germany: “Jews here have not been in such danger since the Holocaust.”

The German government's commissioner for combating "anti-Semitism" Felix Klein confirmed that the repercussions of the Israel-Hamas war have become tangible in Germany as in France, and that the danger to the Jews is now very great.

Klein expressed his concern about this matter in an article published in the German daily newspaper Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, in which he warned that “German Jews have not been exposed to such a degree of danger since the Holocaust era .”

Klein considered that Germany had suffered from a severe wave of " anti-Semitism ," especially since October 7.

In his article, he insisted that the Hamas attack was “a turning point for the security of Jews in Germany,” and pointed out that he considered Hamas “an active terrorist organization that wants to kill as many Jews as possible.”

Klein added: "We must fear that Hamas's arm will extend to Germany," explaining that it has become clear that the number of "anti-Semitic" acts in Germany this year will be "higher than ever before."

He also expressed his regret that the Jewish community in Germany "bears collective responsibility for what happened in Israel and the Gaza Strip," as he described it.

It is noteworthy that German domestic intelligence recorded 1,800 “anti-Semitic” acts by the end of last October.

Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue in Berlin on October 18, and several homes were branded with the six-pointed Star of David.

Since the "Al-Aqsa Flood" attack on Israel, one in every three German Jewish associations has been a victim of anti-Semitic acts, according to a poll conducted by the Central Council of Jews.