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Parents Circle in the Media
Two decades of reporting on bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families who chose reconciliation — newest first.
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May 2024
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‘We all share the same pain’: can the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement rebuild after 7 October? | The Guardian
As the conflict in Gaza continues, reconciliation may seem a distant dream, but on both sides there are those working for peace
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May 2024
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Putting together the peaces | Sydney Morning Herald
The common stage for the re-telling of their stories is the 19th annual joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial ceremony. The ceremony consists of story-telling and singing in Hebrew…
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May 2024
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Israelis and Palestinians held a joint memorial for all victims of the ongoing war | NPR
The 19th annual joint Memorial Day ceremony, presented Sunday at the start of Israel’s national day of honoring fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of attacks, offered…
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May 2024
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Fearing Contempt of Court, Israel’s Education Ministry Allows Israeli–Palestinian Bereaved Families Group to Return to Schools | Haaretz
Last month, the Jerusalem District Court ordered the Israeli government to allow the ‘Parents Circle – Families Forum’ to continue holding meetings between students and Israeli…
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May 2024
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Bereaved Israelis and Palestinians unite for emotional Memorial Day ceremony | The Jewish Chronicle
Bereaved Israelis and Palestinians have come together to hold a joint Memorial Day ceremony and call for a “different future” for those in the region.
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May 2024
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Pain and hope in the Holy Land; 19th joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day | Northeast Bylines
A memorial event that was a narrow glimpse through a window that needs to be opened, to a different reality for the people of both Israel…
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May 2024
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This Memorial Day Ceremony Made Space for Israeli and Palestinian Pain | Kveller
In a day of great pain, and for many more than ever before, of personal grief, hundreds of Israelis, Jews and Palestinians, and others touched by…
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May 2024
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Israelis, Palestinians hold joint online memorial: ‘Help our wounded humanity heal’ | The Times of Israel
Amid war and lack of entry permits for Palestinians, controversial annual event is pre-recorded and livestreamed; Gazan who lost 60 relatives says all wanted to ‘live…
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May 2024
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Activists Hold a Ceremony Reflecting on Both Israeli and Palestinian Losses | New York Times
“Many people have woken up to the reality that this conflict cannot go on,” said a director of one Israeli peace-building group, referring to the decades…
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May 2024
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Path for peace: Parents Circle event hears from bereaved Israeli and Palestinian | Jewish News
Immediately following the Yom Hazikaron ceremony in Israel two men who have recently lost family members to violence speak of the need for reconciliation rather than…
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May 2024
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Bereaved Israelis and Palestinians call for ‘different future’ in joint memorial ceremony | The National
Relatives of Israeli and Palestinian civilians killed since October 7 speak as rights groups call for an end to violence
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May 2024
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Michal Lost Her Son on Oct. 7, Najlaa Buried Her Brother in Gaza. Together, They Seek a Different Future | Haaretz
A number of bereaved Israelis and Palestinians have chosen to join the Parents Circle – Families Forum since October 7. Six of them tell Haaretz about…
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May 2024
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Amid War, We Bereaved Israelis and Palestinians Are Mourning Together | Haaret
Since Israelis’ lives were engulfed in horror on October 7, a catastrophe that has yet to end for Palestinians in Gaza, we bereaved families from both…
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May 2024
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Working towards a solution: Israeli and Palestinian parents mourn together | Jerusalem Post
We are dedicating the ceremony to children in war. Their only crime is being Palestinian or Israeli.
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May 2024
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Families of hostages in Gaza: “The Israeli government is making us internal enemies” | La Croix
While a ceasefire agreement is once again on hold, dividing Israeli society, some families of hostages say they are victims of intimidation by a government prioritizing…
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April 2024
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Court Orders Israeli–Palestinian Bereaved Families Forum Back in to Schools | Haaretz
Jerusalem District Court judge Avraham Rubin criticized the education ministry for banning the Parents Circle – Families Forum from operating in Israeli schools, despite not conducting…
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April 2024
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‘Free this man if it will bring back a hostage’ -Robi Damelin | Times Radio
“The whole world has to come and force Israel and Palestine to come to the table to talk, because we cannot go on killing each other.”…
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April 2024
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Netanyahu’s Regime is based on censorship | UnHerd
In the city of Haifa, in northwest Israel, the sounds of Arabic, Hebrew and Russian chatter fill the streets. In the Arab-Christian neighbourhood of Wadi Nisnas…
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March 2024
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The story of Aramin and Elhanan: “I am Palestinian, he is Israeli, we have both lost our daughters. The only path is the end of the occupation” | Breaking Latest News
Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan — they are two fathers, Palestinian and Israeli respectively, who at different times lost a daughter, still a child
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March 2024
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One is Palestinian, the other Israeli: Sorrow made them friends | Aleteia
An interview with two fathers, a Palestinian and an Israeli, who both lost daughters in the conflict in the Holy Land, were able to meet the…
