The local Likud party branch in Ra’anana organized a demonstration against the Remembrance Day event.

Facing both October 7 and Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, bereaved families sought to make space for shared grief — and insist on a different path forward.

Despite advance warning that right-wing activists were planning to protest outside the ceremony, there was only a small police force, including only one patrol car, when the violence began

With many bereaved families from the Gaza war, several have joined the Israeli-Palestinian Forum. Many will attend online, as the joint Memorial Day ceremony – held at a secret location due to far-right threats – seeks to show that Israelis and Palestinians can share both pain – and hope

Controversial joint Israeli-Palestinian event honoring the slain on both sides continues to grow, even in the shadow of the October 7 massacre and ongoing war in Gaza

I write these words from the deepest pain a human being can endure. Over the past year, I’ve lost 160 members of my extended family – men, women and children. All of them were civilians.

Rami Elhanan is Israeli, and Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. They live near each other but exist in separate worlds.

Around 23% said that friends or family members tried to convince them to cease their peace work, and 22% cited military restrictions as a major hindrance.

Feminism has long celebrated the victories of “firsts” – the first woman to lead, to land a spacecraft, to break barriers built by patriarchy. These are not small feats. But what happens when feminism becomes fluent in ambition and silent in agony?

For 20 years two Israeli-Palestinian groups have observed this solemn day by sharing their loss and their dreams and hopes for Peace.

Christiane Amanpour speaks with Israeli activist Rami Elhanan and Palestinian activist Bassam Aramin, who both lost their young daughters in separate incidents, on their commitment to each other and the striving for peace.

Israeli and Palestinian members of the Parents Circle, which brings together families who have lost loved ones in the conflict, spoke at the JCCSF on April 9.

Frontiers of Prevention engages community through poignant testimonies, urgent discussions and global cooperation

Rami Elhanan is Israeli and Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. They live close to each other but exist in separate worlds.

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.

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”

Before Nita Lowey died, Donald Trump eviscerated the $250M Middle East peace fund named for her | Cleveland Jewish News All of the peace-building groups supported through the MEPPA fund have had their grants canceled amid the Trump administration’s slashing of USAID, the United States’ civilian foreign aid agency, and

We must create programs where Israeli studies and Palestinian studies are explored in entwined fashion, to reflect the lived experience of people on the ground.

Last year I attended a presentation in Palo Alto by two bereaved mothers, one Palestinian, the other Israeli. Each had lost a child in the many years of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Israeli Maoz Inon and Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah, who attended the “Arena of Peace” event in the northern Italian city of Verona in May 2024, where they received the personal embrace and the support of Pope Francis, speak of their shared vision of peace.

Our statesmen often resemble children squabbling so fiercely over a resource that they destroy it. There is another way

The 2024 Seán MacBride Peace Prize honors the selfless efforts and dedication of organizations and individuals who promote healing, restoration, and human rights while embodying the principles of peace amidst diversity.

Judea Reform Congregation, the main Reform synagogue in the Durham-Chapel Hill area, hosted two peace activists on Sunday from the Parents Circle – Families Forum, a joint Israeli-Palestinian organization of families who have lost loved ones in the decades of violence.

International governments are key funders of human rights organisations in Israel. The Israeli government is trying to stymie their influence.

When Robi Damelin received the knock on the door that every parent dreads, her reaction was not what you might expect. Instead of calling for revenge and justice, she demanded that nobody be hurt or killed as a response to her son’s tragic death.

As a child, Arab Aramin threw stones at Israeli soldiers. As a teenager, Guy Elhanan prepared to take up arms in the Israeli military. On Tuesday, Feb. 11, they stood together at DePaul, not as enemies, but as “brothers.”

Arab Aramin and Guy Elhanan of the Parents Circle Families Forum shared their powerful journeys from tragic loss to a commitment to reconciliation with DePaul community members last Tuesday night at St. Vincent de Paul Church.

In the UK, at the Foreign Affairs Committee’s recently launched inquiry into the Israel-Palestine conflict, Bassem Aramin told MPs what daily life in the West Bank has been like since the operation started.

Gaza looks like casinos and condos to the US president but it belongs to the people who live there, and have lived there for centuries

Peacebuilding organisations in Israel and the Palestinian territories have been forced to stop work after the US shut down foreign aid.

Hear from bereaved family members who’ve lost loved ones in the conflict at event on Feb. 11

Wars end. We tend to forget this. Inevitably, they must end. As sure as war, is the end of war. History teaches this in innumerable ways.

The Foreign Affairs Committee continues its inquiry into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, hearing from grassroot organisations working in Israel and Palestine on Monday 27 January, at 2pm.

The Israeli military launched an operation in Jenin, dubbed Iron Wall, resulting in a dozen deaths with 35 wounded. For a Palestinian activist, Israel is imposing “total closure” on the West Bank to settle the score.

Maoz Inon’s parents were killed in Hamas’s October 7 attack. With a ceasefire now in effect, he says Israelis and Palestinians need to chart a new course for ‘a better future for all between the river and the sea’.

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.