Palestinian Peace Day Celebration

On Saturday, September 23rd Volunteering for Peace CC, United for Palestine CC, Palestinian Association for NVC CC, We are Palestine CC, and with presence of Palestinian Peace Society CC, and other URI activists in Palestine, we celebrated together the International Day of Peace at the "Friendship Garden" located next to the Ibrahimi Mosque, the home for Abraham the grandfather for the Abrahamic religions and the place where he was buried together with his wife Sarah and his grandsons afterwards.

The Celebration started with a prayer from this scarred place, then the group started a roundtable meeting to talk about what does Peace and the International day of Peace with the presence of the young leaders, a wonderful university students groups and active members of URI. Some of the points that was raised during the roundtable meeting:

A Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish said, "Peace to the land that was born for peace and had never seen peace" meaning Palestine
Living in Peace is a Peace itself
Reaching to inner peace is very important to reach to a real peace
We don't want to see discrimination, racism and hate, those all are forms of lack of peace
There is No Peace with Israeli ugly occupation
Respecting other people’s opinions and thoughts is a tool of peace
Checkpoints and roadblocks by the occupation is dividing people and does not allow communication
I want to live at least one day in a real peace
Peace is a right for each citizen
Allah (God) is Peace and he loves Peace
Human beings are born to live in Peace
Islam means peace and ask people to live in peace
Human beings are born to love other and not to hate
No one chooses how to be
Palestine lives under occupation, we dream of peace
There is no peace with occupation and settlements
URI is our bridge for peace
May Peace prevail in Palestine, May peace prevail of earth
Give peace a chance
I was born to live in peace