Today marks one year since Hamas inflicted its horrific attack on Southern Israel on October 7.
Today also marks one year and three days since 1500 Israeli and Palestinian women came together on the shores of the Dead Sea, demanding an end to the “cycle of bloodshot” and for peacemaking to be elevated.
The gathering that occurred between the Israeli group Women Wage Peace, and the Palestinian group Women of the Sun, is especially tragic when you consider what was to come just days later. A brutal attack by Hamas that killed more than 1000 people in Israel, sparking a relentless Israeli retaliation in Gaza and an ever-escalating conflict that continues today.
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A terror rampage organised and perpetrated by men. A relentless retaliation by a male-dominated government, with almost no women involved in any aspect of the attempts at negotiations that have followed.
Source: A year of violence and women excluded from what comes next