In an interview with British journalist Owen Jones, University of Bradford emeritus professor Paul Rogers says the destruction in Gaza was “unparalleled in the post-WWII era”, Al Jazeera reports.

Citing a report by Scientists for Global Security, Rogers said about “70,000 tonnes of explosives” have been dropped on Gaza.

“Back in the Cold War days, we used to say a kilotonne is equivalent to a thousand tonnes of TNT. We are now using explosives that are much more powerful than TNT,” he added. Rogers said this figure equated to nearly six times the explosive power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US in 1945.

“Very few people realise just how intense this has been, and how continual,” he added. “We’ve not seen much of it on TV here, compared to channels in the Middle East, which means right across the Arab world, the degree of anger — and, I have to say, hatred — of what is happening, is palpable.”