by Peace | May 7, 2025 | Gaza, hunger, Israel, Vrede en oorlog, water
The family with whom we maintain contact in Gaza asked us this week if we could help with food supplies and a water truck. We wondered how they would get this, since we read in the media that everything had run out and no aid had been allowed in for two months. There...
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 | Mar 19, 2025 | Gaza, Israel, Vrede en oorlog
Yesterday morning I read on the NOS Dutch news website that Israel had violated the ceasefire and carried out a large-scale attack on Gaza. More than 300 people were killed, including many children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. I asked the family in Gaza...
by Peace | Mar 5, 2025 | Congo, Vrede en oorlog
The East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is plunged into an armed conflict that has lasted for decades, causing immeasurable human suffering, violations of human rights, massive displacement of populations, sexual violence, etc. and hindering the development...
by Peace | Feb 7, 2025 | United Nations, Vrede en oorlog
Most of us are familiar with the film about Robert Oppenheimer that tells how, in 1945, work was being done in the deepest secrecy to develop the atomic bomb, a weapon system that would profoundly change issues of war and peace. What many of us do not know is that...
by Peace | Jan 31, 2025 | Vrede en oorlog, Vrouwen
On Tuesday January 28th, Reem Hajajreh of the Palestinian Women of the Sun, Yael Braudo-Bahat of Women Wage Peace from Israel, and Hanna Assouline, president of des Guerrières de la Paix, were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize at the Vrije Universiteit in...
