TIME magazine has named “Israeli and Palestinian women calling for peace” among its Women of the Year, which lists 12 “extraordinary leaders working toward a more equal world”.
Yasmeen Serhan, writing for the magazine, said that “on October 4, 2023, some 1,500 Israeli and Palestinian women descended on Jerusalem and the shores of the Dead Sea. Wielding blue and yellow flags representing two different grassroots peace organizations, they gathered to demand an end to the ‘cycle of bloodshed’ consuming their communities and for their respective leaders to return to the negotiating table to secure a nonviolent resolution to their decades-long conflict”.
The Palestinian organisation’s founder and director Reem Hajajreh added that they “started out as a movement with a few lone women and now we are thousands. We no longer take the back seat”.