With Israelis and Palestinians engulfed in grief, the joint memorial ceremony defies hate

8 p.m. on Tuesday. The same anti-aircraft alarms that are triggered when a projectile heads towards Israel sound for a minute. Instead of heading towards the shelters, the population stops and bows its head in respect. Even those who drive, take the vehicle to the corner and go out to respect the minute of silence. It is the so-called Day of Remembrance of the Soldiers Fallen in the Wars of Israel and the Victims of Terrorist Acts (319 soldiers,…

Israelis and Palestinians mark 20th joint Memorial Day ceremony

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. The post Against all odds, Israelis and Palestinians mark 20th joint Memorial Day ceremony appeared first on +972 Magazine.

With Israelis and Palestinians engulfed in grief, the joint memorial ceremony defies hate

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

Towards the People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, May 8-9. Many for the twentieth Joint Ceremony of the Fighters for Peace

We already had a beautiful, shared and highly attended preview of what the now imminent People’s Peace Summit will be like last night with the twentieth edition of the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony, as always organized by Combatants for Peace in collaboration with the Parents Circle Families Forum: this year, the event was held in a theater in Jaffa, in streaming connection with a square in Beit Jala and with 160 other stations, sc…

JFJFPJoint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony dares to defy the cycle of a bloody reality – JFJFP

Mourners mourn next to the body of 42-year-old Palestinian Hussein Hardan during his funeral in Jenin, April 2025 Nir Hasson and Sheren Falah Saab report in Haaretz on 29 April 2025: Israeli and Palestinian bereavement circles are separate entities that never meet. Each side is immersed in its own grief, wants it to be theirs and theirs alone, and blames the other for its tragedies. In the past year and a half, these circles have grown enormousl…

Riots broke out at the Israeli-Palestinian memorial ceremony in Ra'anana following clashes outside the Reform synagogue. The incident sparked a furor, with the opposition attacking the protesters and even blaming the Likud.