A Palestinian mother who lost her son and an Israeli daughter who lost her parents to the decades-long conflict between their nations shared their stories Monday night, urging peace, reconciliation and understanding.

The weekend saw seven panel discussions. The Nadia Rubaii Memorial Prize was awarded to Robi Damelin and Sima Mohammed Awad of the Israeli-Palestinian peace group Parents Circle-Familes Forum.

I-GMAP to host annual Frontiers of Prevention conference this weekend | BU Pipe Dream This year’s Nadia Rubaii Memorial Prize, which was created in 2023 to honor one of the institute’s late co-founders, will be awarded to the “Parents Circle — Families Forum,” an Israeli-Palestinian peace organization.

Javier Bardem Signs Letter by Bereaved Israeli, Palestinian Fathers Urging End to “Bloody Conflict” | Hollywood Reporter The plea for a return to negotiations and a possible ceasefire in Gaza by Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin was published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

We are the ones who have paid the heaviest price through those who lost their children in this bloody conflict. We lost our daughters, Smadar Elhanan, 14 years old, and Abeer Aramin, 10 years old, due to the ongoing Israeli occupation.

There are Israelis and Palestinians who reject this kind of cruelty and inhumanity. There is even a group of bereaved Israeli and Palestinian parents who have each lost a child in the violence, and they say they don’t want any new members.

Demonstrators in London urge UK leaders and Jewish community figures to break their silence as calls for peace grow louder

“There is another way. We want reconciliation. We want an end to the occupation. So this is co-resisting together, the system everybody’s caught up in and there are so many synagogues who are also involved in this”