Gaza today resembles Japan 80 years ago, say Nobel Prize-winning atomic bomb survivors
Toshiyuki Mimaki (right) president of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaks to media members in Hiroshima, Japan, October 11, 2024, as he reacts to Ninon Hidankyo's winning the Nobel Peace Prize
GAZA today resembles Japan 80 years ago, the Nobel prize-winning survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings said on Saturday.
Speaking to reporters in Tokyo after the Norwegian Nobel prize committee awarded the prize to the Nihon Hidankyo group, co-chairman Toshiyuki Mimaki said: “I thought for sure it would be the people working so hard in Gaza, as we’ve seen.
“In Gaza, bleeding children are being held by their parents. It’s like in Japan 80 years ago.”
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