This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group, Nihon Hidankyo. The grassroots movement of survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki received the peace prize for its “efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”. The co-head of Nihon Hidankyo, Toshiyuki Mimaki, likened the current situation for children in Gaza to that of Japan at the end of the Second World War.

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