by Peace | Apr 5, 2025 | Israel, Palestine, Vrede en oorlog
This morning I received an e-mail with the subject line ‘SOS from Gaza’: Gaza is being destroyed. I am [….] from Jabalia. My house was bombed over the heads of my family. They are still under rescue. Please, we beg you. We need your help. We are without food and...
by Peace | Jan 21, 2025 | Israel, Palestine, Vrede en oorlog
On Wednesday 15 January, I received a happy message from Gaza from the family we are in touch with. ‘We don’t know if we are in a dream or reality…. The ceasefire will stop… We are crying with joy… Have my wife, children and I been spared from...
by Peace | Feb 13, 2024 | Gaza, Hongerbestrijding en honger, Palestine, Vrede en oorlog
We may be unable to find words to describe what we are going through… We are trapped between gunfire and a separation border wall. We cannot advance, retreat, or return to our home, and there is no place to escape and survive. We only have to wait for death,...
by Peace | Feb 8, 2024 | children, Gaza, Palestine, Vrede en oorlog
In October last year, I wrote an opinion article entitled “Stop the violence in Gaza and Israel.” In it, I expressed how shocked I was by the horrific attacks on Israeli civilians by Hamas on 7 October and called for the Israeli hostages to be released. I...
by Peace | Oct 13, 2023 | Israel, Palestine, Vrede en oorlog
Israel, 10 October 2023 There are no words to describe the pain, the shock and the loss. How can one possibly deal with the cruelty of the terrorists, the bloodbath which claimed the lives of young people at an outdoor party, of young children who were slaughtered...
by Peace | Aug 2, 2023 | Israel, Palestine, Vrede en oorlog
Wahat al-Salam – Neve Shalom (WASNS) is a unique Peace Village with its ideological base and day-to-day experience as a place of equal co-existence between Israeli Palestinians and Israeli Jews. For those who wish to see more places like WASNS, not just in Israel but...
