The local government in Nagasaki province declared it will not invite Israel to its annual conference to commemorate US nuclear bombing of Japan, Anadolu Agency reports.

Mayor Shiro Suzuki said Israel would “not be invited to the Aug 9 annual peace ceremony,” Tokyo-based Kyodo News reported.

The decision to not invite Israel to the event comes on a day Israel assassinated resistance group Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh at his residence in Iranian capital Tehran.

Nagasaki and Hiroshima cities will be commemorating 79th anniversary of 1945 atomic bombing by the US on Japan next month.

Japan has refused to invite Russia and Belarus for similar conference since Moscow waged war on Ukraine in Feb 2022.