Two days after it was announced that Nihon Hidankyo had won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Japanese group became the target of Israeli wrath.

On Sunday, Israel's ambassador to Japan criticized the co-chair of the anti-nuclear organization Nihon Hidankyo for comparing the war in the Gaza Strip to the disaster that befell Japan in 1945.

Gilad Cohen congratulated the Nihon Hidankyo group on winning the award this year, but said in a post on the “X” platform for one that the comparison made by the group’s co-chair Toshiyuki Mimaki was “scandalous and baseless.”

Cohen said, “Gaza is under the rule of Hamas, which is a deadly terrorist organization,” as he put it.

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 of World War II. "In Gaza, there are people carrying their bloodied children. It's like Japan 80 years ago," Mimaki said.

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 atomic bomb struck Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing 140,000 people.

Israeli soldiers amid the rubble in the Gaza Strip

Three days later, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing 74,000 people, many of whom survived the explosion but later died from exposure to radiation.

Last August, the Nagasaki municipality decided not to invite Cohen to the ceremony commemorating the dropping of the nuclear bomb, to avoid possible protests related to the war in the 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.

The surprise attack launched by Hamas resulted in the killing of 1,206 people and the taking of 250 hostages. The death toll, based on official Israeli figures, includes hostages who were killed or died while being held in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli soldiers amid the rubble in the Gaza Strip

The Israeli military campaign in Gaza left massive destruction and resulted in the deaths of more than 42,000 people, most of them civilians, women and children, according to data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court moved a warrant to arrest Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant, on charges related to committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.