Israeli envoy criticises Japan’s atomic bomb survivor’s Gaza comparison
Israel’s ambassador to Japan has criticised a leader of an atomic bomb survivors’ group awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for comparing their experiences with the children of Gaza.
Ambassador Gilad Cohen congratulated the group Nihon Hidankyo for winning this year’s prize, but said in a post on X the comparison drawn by the group’s co-chair Toshiyuki Mimaki “is outrageous and baseless”.
Mimaki said after the prize was announced on Friday the plight of children in Gaza is similar to what Japan faced at the end of World War II. “In Gaza, bleeding children are being held [by their parents]. It’s like in Japan 80 years ago,” Mimaki said.
Children react next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks
I often think of Grave of the Fireflies when I see the reports of 17,000 orphaned children, many trying to take care of their younger siblings.
Australian police threaten students with arrest for pro-Palestine posters
A pro-Palestine activist in the Australian city of Sydney documented police threatening to arrest students who placed pro-Palestine posters in the public Hyde Park. The video clip below, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, shows police officers stopping the students and confiscating the posters.
The student who filmed the incident commented: “We are protesting a genocide and we are being targeted as criminals. How outrageous!”
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Berlin
Police walk behind protesters holding Palestinian and Lebanese flags in Germany’s capital
The death toll in Gaza and Lebanon continues to rise from Israeli attacks
It started with the German-Ottoman alliance back in 1914, while people living in the area were pushing for independence from the Ottoman empire. The British then promised that independence in trade for uprising against the Ottoman empire and fighting the Germans in WW1. Then betrayed the people in the area with the Balfour declaration (1917) and creating Mandatory Palestine (1920-1948) to realize Theodor Herzl's (1860-1904 Hungary) dreams of a Zionist state.
The holocaust (1941-1945) locked Germany into unconditional support for Israel (created 1948) out of guilt.
