U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel will sit out this year’s Nagasaki Peace Ceremony, following Israel’s exclusion from the annual commemoration of the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
More than 100 countries will observe a minute of silence on Friday to mark the moment the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan during the Second World War.This comes following calls to exclude Israel over its own bombardment of Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed since the October 7th attack.
All of this comes on the backdrop of further disarray in the Middle East, after the Israeli military ordered yet another mass evacuation in part of Khan Younis, saying its forces will soon operate there in response to Palestinian rocket fire.
