Israeli and Palestinian activists are set to end a two-week march through parts of Israel and the West Bank with a Jerusalem rally to demand a so far elusive peace deal.
The Women Wage Peace movement organized the march, which began on September 24 and includes participants who have themselves been affected by violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Several thousand activists joined the march over the two weeks.
“We must come together to be able to reach the peace that we all want,” Michal Froman, who was stabbed by a Palestinian in January 2016 while pregnant with her fifth child, told AFP last week, saying she wants to “believe in peace.”
“As a religious woman, I say that to not believe in peace is to not believe in God.”
Huda Abuarquob, one of the organizers and a Palestinian from Hebron in the occupied West Bank, said: “This march is not just another protest, but a way of saying that we want peace, and together we can obtain it.”
Their arrival in Jerusalem coincides with the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which commemorates the Israelites’ journey through the Sinai desert after their exodus from Egypt.
— AFP
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