By Nate Feldman
Today, the 19th joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial
Day Ceremony was held. The event was an initiative
of Combatants for Peace, former
soldiers that are calling for people to lay down their weapons, and the Parents Circle-Families Forum, a group
of bereaved Israeli and Palestinian parents calling for an end to fighting
between the two sides.
There were Israeli and Palestinian speakers recalling
the violence against both sides, from the Hamas attack against Israel on
October 7, 2023, and Israel’s ongoing war against Gaza. Nevertheless, there were calls for an end to
violence. One Israeli mother who lost
her son in the Hamas attack called for an end to revenge and fighting between
the two sides. A Palestinian woman
talked about losing her brother and twenty members of her family in the current
conflict. Yet, she acknowledged that
Israeli people had lost relatives as well.
There was a musical performance by Yael Deckelbaum and
Layan Hawila on guitar and oud titled “The Prayer for the Mothers,” which was
sung in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. The
song talked about the desire of mothers who wanted peace.
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