On Tuesday, March 24th, thousands of women and men marched in the streets of Rome to support the Mothers’ Call for peace, an initiative of Women Wage Peace and our Palestinian partners, Women of the Sun.

The war meant that we did not have the planned parallel event at Jaffa Gate but we did have a small gathering at the YMCA and were joined by hundreds of others on Zoom.

I had the privilege of addressing the event.

I speak to you from Jerusalem – the city of peace – ir shalem – or al-Quds, the place of sanctity.

Just last week, this city was full of the holiness of Ramadan. Next week, we will have Pesach and Easter. These are festivals of freedom, of hope, of justice and of peace. We dream of a transformed........

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