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The Joint Memorial Ceremony wants to honor every life lost - Israeli and Palestinian alike - because only by acknowledging each other’s pain can we reclaim our humanity and begin to heal. (organised by Combatants for Peace and Parents Circle)

We, Ilaria Olimpico and Uri Noy Meir, are a couple in life, and we both work as facilitators & artists. We are connected to the land between the river and the sea. Uri is originally from Israel and, in his transformative journey, met Combatants for Peace. Ilaria has known Combatants for Peace since a long time ago, and after October 7th, 2023, she became part of European Friends of Combatants for Peace.

Ilaria and Uri invite you to gather and watch the 20th Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony

We’ll begin with a short moment of welcome just before the ceremony at 19:10 Berlin / 13:10 New York and take a moment to share afterward.

This year, it is more important than ever for Palestinians and Israelis to come together amid shared grief to mourn together and demand an end to the bloodshed.

We are proud to support this Ceremony and gather as a global community of artists and facilitators to watch it together.

"Instead of allowing grief to be manipulated into hatred, and instead of accepting revenge as justice, we choose a different path.

We choose to honor every life lost - Israeli and Palestinian alike - because only by acknowledging each other’s pain can we reclaim our humanity and begin to heal.

The Ceremony does not seek to equate loss or compare pain, but we do seek to humanize everyone, to recognize that every person taken by this conflict was a person with dreams, a family, and a future that was stolen."