Our hearts have been torn apart every single day over the past 466 days of unimaginable devastation, fear, and loss.

Relieved. Hopeful. Even optimistic. Those are the immediate reactions of some peacebuilders in the Gaza Strip, the U.S., and elsewhere abroad Wednesday after Israel and the militant group Hamas reached a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal.

Yonatan Zeigen, son of an Israeli pacifist killed on 7 October, speaks to AsiaNews about the question of “power and interests” behind the agreement, starting with the new US administration.

Mainstream Israel customarily venerates bereaved families, even sanctifying them. Some would say that the situation has changed recently, but this position is also based on the same falsity.

As talks continue in Doha in an attempt to reach a hostage deal and potential ceasefire in Gaza… five thousand kilometres away in London, a different type of negotiation is happening, in the hope of finding a long-term path to peace.

In this heart-stirring video, two extraordinary individuals—Robi Damelin, an Israeli mother, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian father—share their deeply personal journeys from unimaginable loss to a united mission for peace.

Michal Halev, an Israeli American and former facilitator of women’s circles and emotional counseling, is a mother. After Oct. 7, I joined a family nobody wants to belong to.

Time since October 7 is counted in various ways: by months, by days, by seconds, by bodies. I don’t care too much which way time passed since my mother, Vivian Silver, was murdered in Kibbutz Be’eri.

My name is Rami Elhanan. I am an Israeli and a Jew. I am a seventh-generation Jerusalemite. My father was a ‘graduate’ of the Holocaust.

A new educational program promotes empathy through stories of shared humanity