Gilad Cohen congratulated the group Nihon Hidankyo It won the award this year, but he said in a post on the X platform on Sunday that the comparison made by the group’s co-chair Toshiyuki Mimaki was “scandalous and baseless.”
“Gaza is under government,” Cohen said agitation“It is a deadly terrorist organization committing a double war crime: targeting Israeli civilians, including women and children, while using its own people as human shields,” according to what Agence France-Presse reported.
He added, “Such comparisons distort history and harm the memory of the victims” of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, which sparked the war.
The organization likened the situation in the Gaza Strip to the situation in Japan at the end World War II. “In Gaza, there are people carrying their bloodied children,” Mimaki said. “It’s like… Japan 80 years ago.”
The twentieth century witnessed the bloody Japanese invasion of Asia and World War II, which ended in 1945 after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The first nuclear bomb struck Hiroshima On August 6, 1945, it resulted in the deaths of 140,000 people.
3 days later, the United States dropped atomic bomb On a city Nagasakikilling 74,000 people, many of whom survived the explosion but later died due to exposure to radiation.
In the past, the Nagasaki municipality decided not to invite Cohen to a memorial service Anniversary of the dropping of the nuclear bombto avoid possible war-related protests in Gaza Strip.
This decision prompted the ambassadors of the United States, Britain and the European Union, among other countries, not to attend the ceremony and to send lower officials to participate.
It is indicated that The Israeli war on Gazafollowing the attack of October 7, 2023, caused massive destruction, and resulted in the deaths of 42,227 people, most of them civilians, women and children, according to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.
