The Nobel Prize

Time for the Peace Prize - ICC, UNRWA and Elon Musk are mentioned

At the same time as several major wars are raging in the world, the time has come to appoint the Nobel Peace Prize. At 11 o'clock on Friday, the award will be announced in Oslo.

Many believe that the Norwegian Nobel Committee will pay attention to efforts in the Middle East by giving the award to an organization such as the Red Cross or the World Health Organization, WHO. The UN agency Unrwa also has strong support to be rewarded, writes TT. At the same time, such a choice would risk being met with sharp criticism from Israel, which accused UNRWA employees of having been involved in the Hamas terrorist attack on 7 October last year.

Others are guessing that the award goes to the international courts in The Hague, ICJ and ICC, but even the perhaps more unlikely Elon Musk has been nominated for the award from several quarters.

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Japanese grassroots movement receives Nobel Peace Prize - for testimony from Hiroshima

The Nobel Peace Prize this year goes to the Japanese grassroots movement Nihon Hidankyo, also known as Hibakusha. According to the Nobel Committee in Oslo, the organization has demonstrated the unacceptable use of nuclear weapons.

Through testimony from survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the organization has shown that nuclear weapons must never be used again, according to the rationale.

- Hibakusha helps us to describe the indescribable, to think the unthinkable, and to understand the incomprehensible pain and suffering of nuclear weapons, says Nobel Committee Chairman Jørgen Watne Frydnes.

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Peace Prize winner: Gaza is like Japan 80 years ago

Toshiyuki Mimaki, president of the Japanese grassroots movement Nihon Hidankyo who is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, burst into cheers and teary-eyed when he received the news. This is reported by AP.

- Is it true? Unbelievable!

The organization, which works for a world free of nuclear weapons, has been the favorite several times before. It consists of survivors after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Mimaki, who survived Hiroshima at the age of three, draws parallels between the situation of children in Gaza today and Japan at the end of World War II.

- In Gaza, they embrace the bloody children. It's like in Japan 80 years ago.