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Dear Friends

It feels almost surreal to think that it was around this time last year we experienced the first lockdown as the pandemic took hold. We were scrambling to protect our annual Joint Memorial ceremony, and were determined to find a solution to the ban on gatherings, and hold a meaningful event. We did just that, and more, and were joined by over 200,000 online participants to hear a new perspective on the conflict, and the bond which unites Israelis and Palestinians despite our own grief.

Today, we are launching our 2021 ceremony, and are proud and excited to share with you our new video which reminds us of the significance and meaning of this event.. Please join us again this year, and if you can, support us, to create a lasting change in Israel, Palestine, and across the world, as we remind people - ‘war is not an act of fate, but of human choice’.

See below for some of the other ways we are working together towards peace. Your generosity keeps our movement strong, and together we can make peace a reality.

In Peace & Solidarity from Israel/Palestine,

Sulaiman Khatib

Palestinian Co-Director

Yonatan Gher

Israeli Co-Director

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UPCOMING ONLINE EVENTS

Joint Memorial & Nakba Ceremonies

Israel and Palestine have each established a national day of remembrance wherein they mourn the consequences of the decades-long conflict with one another. Historically, and culturally, both communities have elevated this day of national remembrance to one of sacred observance.

Israelis mourn on Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) and Palestinians on the Nakba (Day of Catastrophe). The narratives that the Palestinian and Israeli communities hold are vastly different: the two sides interpret the history and the politics in two completely different ways.

By bringing the “other side” to each other’s Memorial or Remembrance Ceremony, Combatants for Peace transforms despair into hope, and we remind ourselves that occupation and war are not inevitable. When we learn to understand and respect each other we become able to forge a just and lasting peace.

Joint Memorial - Tuesday, April 13th 2021, 8:30pm Israel/Palestine time, (1:30pm EST/6:30pm GMT)

Nakba Day Ceremony - Saturday 15th May 2021

If you are interested in hosting an online watch party, or are connected to a community or NGO and would like more information on partnership or sponsorship, please contact Laura.Morris@cfpeace.org

Watch: 2020 Joint Memorial Ceremony

Watch: 2020 Nakba Day Ceremony

Democracy and Justice

Access to healthcare

We sent a letter to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) asking them to ensure Israel doesn’t block the supply of Covid-19 vaccines to Palestinians, and to not deny the vaccination to those living under occupation for political gain.

“The State of Israel is in the midst of an election campaign, and there is strong opposition in the electorate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the right-wing parties to any minimal humanitarian and human gesture to the Palestinians.”

Read the full article on The Wire

Land Rights

Our activists were once again in the Jordan Valley, where violence and aggression is still passing by unchallenged by the Israeli authorities. This time, we were near the settlement of Hemdat, where settlers built a barbed wire fence to restrict the movement of the local Palestinian shepherds and keep them off their own land. Despite repeated requests to the Civil Administration to remove this barrier on the basis of its legality, we were ignored, so took matters into our own hands, removed the partition, and replaced it with a few signs of our own.

Watch the full story here

Stopping Demolition Orders

Our activists united to send a letter to German officials, calling on them to intervene urgently and stop the unlawful and violent attacks against the native Palestinian shepherds in the West Bank.

“On 25.1.2021 the IDF gave 30 demolition orders addressed to Palestinian shepherds communities living in the West Bank. The majority of the demolition orders in the north of the Jordan Valley target one specific community. In the same area this community lives, another massive demolition was executed a few months ago, (where the homes of the entire population of Humsa were destroyed, leaving them and their herds exposed to the rains and cold nights in the middle of the winter), in an even larger scale than the typical demolitions done by Israel.”

The letter was distributed to diplomats across Europe and the US and we will keep applying international pressure until these demolition orders cease.

And finally...

We don’t do what we do for the letters of thanks, but sometimes, even the most hardened of activists are moved to tears. These moments help us to reflect on why we do all we do…

“I am the farmer, Jamal, from the village of Shofa in Tulkarm. My land was subjected to an attack by settlers, represented by uprooting 300 olive trees, leveling the land and opening a path inside it. I have been prevented from accessing it and replanting it. Then I got to know the (Combatants for Peace) foundation, so they were the true refuge and support at all material and moral levels, and thankfully they helped me cultivate the land and provide me with psychological support, which had a great impact on replanting and reconstructing the land.

All thanks and appreciation to your great institution, and may God bless you.”

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