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Women Wage Peace along with Women of the Sun and EcoPeace were nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize by academics at the Free University Amsterdam for their efforts to build peace between Israelis and Palestinians. [9] In addition, WWP co-founder and leader Yael Admi has been selected as one of the 2024 TIME Women of the year. [10]
Women of the Sun (نساء الشمس) is a Palestinian women's organization based in Bethlehem. [1] It was founded in July 2021 and is devoted to a peaceful resolution in the Israel-Palestine conflict. [2] [3] [4] The organization's name is an allusion to Men in the Sun, the 1962 novel by Ghassan Kanafani. [5]
Since 2021 it has collaborated with a Palestinian sister movement, Women of the Sun. [5] By February 2023, Braudo-Bahat was the organization's co-director. [6] As a member of Women Wage Peace, Braudo-Bahat has criticized government policies that restrict the entrance of Palestinian activists into Israel, [6] and the continued 2023 Israel-Hamas ...
For 19 years, Combatants for Peace—a non-profit volunteer organization of ex-combatant Israelis and Palestinians who have rejected all forms of violence in order to end the occupation and search ...
As part of this work, she helped organize and lead tours of the Israeli side of the Israeli–Gaza border, as a way to raise awareness about the struggles of Gaza residents. [12] Silver officially retired in 2014. [1] Following her retirement, and the 2014 Gaza War, Silver co-founded Women Wage Peace, an interfaith grassroots organization.
In 2002, an Arab plan offered Israel normal ties with all Arab countries in return for a full withdrawal from the lands it took in the 1967 Middle East war, creation of a Palestinian state and a ...
An apparent breakthrough for peace in the Middle East occurred on 17 September 1978 when Israeli PM Menachem Begin met Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the Camp David Accords at the Maryland ...
Palestinian protestor in December 1987. Palestinian women played significant roles in leading and organising the First Intifada, from 1987 to 1991. [1] Xanthe Scharff of Foreign Policy wrote that the First Intifada was a "largely nonviolent Palestinian struggle" that was "a collective social, economic, and political mobilisation led by women."