Unable to attend the ceremony due to the closure of the West Bank, Ahmed Al-Helou sent a recording. When speaking of his hopes, he also told of the sixty dead members of his family in Gaza. "How does this bring security for Israel?" he asked.
Yonatan Zeigen emphasized "mutual bereavement". His mother's work was on the audience's mind when he acknowledged that the torch had been passed to him. He said, "May it be extinguished on my watch so I don't have to pass it on to my children."
At the film's close, statistics relating the deaths of Israelis and Palestinians, displacements of Gazans, and numbers of Israeli hostages (alive and assumed dead) are listed. The $18 billion in "weapons and military aid" given to the state of Israel since October 2023 is compared to the slightly more than $1 billion provided to the Palestinian people for humanitarian aid.
Chen declares definitively, "The most difficult thing in life, really, is to put yourself in the shoes of the other."
On April 29, Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle - Families Forum are holding their 20th Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony: Choosing Humanity, Choosing Hope
Live Broadcast 20:30 Jerusalem | 19:30 Berlin | 13:30 New York | 10:30 Los Angeles
Learn more here.
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