Two men, both clad in black jackets and blue jeans, stood on stage politely gesturing at the other to start. Magen Inon and Hamze Awawde grew up on opposite sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but they came together to call for peace at a vigil outside Downing Street.
At the gathering, faith leaders and politicians joined grieving families “in the first mass event of its kind” since Hamas militants entered Israel on October 7.
Inon, an Israeli, described how his parents were among the 1,200 murdered that day. “Their house was directly hit by a shoulder rocket and the house burned down completely with my parents in it,” he said. “We pray that they did not suffer in the last moments. The only consolation I
