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    Parents Who've Lost Kids To Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Work Together To Promote Peace

    One group of Israelis and Palestinians are working together to end the conflict, writing on their website "We believe it can be different."
    May 27, 2021 5 minutes
    The Peace Square, an open public dialogue on peace and reconciliation, held by Parents Circle Families Forum in Tel Aviv in 2014. (Courtesy)

    The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Gaza continues to hold, but tensions between Israelis and Palestinians remain high.

    The devastating 11-day air war killed more than 240 Palestinians and a dozen Israelis. Three hundred buildings in Gaza were razed.

    Throughout this conflict, and the decades of war that preceded it, some Israeli Jews and Palestinians have continued to work together for peace. Among them is a group called the Parents Circle – Families Forum, and its members have suffered what many can’t imagine — losing a family member to the conflict.

    Members of the group believe that there can be peace regardless of the Israeli occupation, random acts of terrorism, failed treaties and war.

    is a Jewish Israeli who joined Parents Circle after her 28-year-old son David was killed by a Palestinian sniper in

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