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Sophia Tesfaye

GOPer says Gaza should be like Hiroshima

A Republican congressman is not walking back recent comments he made seemingly comparing Gaza to the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

At a March 25 town hall in Dundee, Michigan, Republican Rep. Tim Walberg argued against the Biden administration delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza, which remains under an Israeli blockade, via U.S. military cargo ships. In order to transport the aid to land, the U.S. built a temporary pier off the coast of the besieged enclave.

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