Nobel-winning Japanese victims of atomic bombs see themselves in Palestinians of Gaza
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners say they see themselves in the Palestinians being attacked by Israel in Gaza.
On Friday, it was announced that Nihon Hidankyo, known as “the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations,” had won the Prize this year.
Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of the organization, watched the ceremony in Norway’s capital Oslo on TV.
The Irish Times reports that he said tearfully, “It can’t be real, I felt so sure it would be the people of Gaza.”
Survivors of America’s atomic bombing of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 are known as Hibakusha, which literally means “bombing victims.”
Approximately 106,000 of them are still alive.
The sheer tonnage of bombs dropped on Gaza since October 2023 has exceeded that of the two atomic bombs deployed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945.
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