Combatants For Peace

May 2013 / Guided tour to the rural area of Bethlehem

The “Bethlehem-Jerusalem” group of the “Combatants for Peace” (CFP) movement conducts tours of the rural area of Bethlehem, with the purpose of expanding and deepening the participants’ knowledge of the area, its inhabitants and the problems inherent to life under occupation in the area. At the end of the tour, a [...]

Personal Stories

Roni Segoly

My name is Roni and on Aug 2007 I joined the organization Combatants for Peace. Since then I have been an active member and this is My Personal Story. I grew up in Jerusalem in the 70s, the years of the feeling of euphoria after the 6 day war. I was a youngster and like most [...]

Riham Musa (Tulkarm)

“Even though I was a little girl, I felt more powerful than the soldiers because I was the person with right on my side.” Photography by Dubi Roman Riham Musa is a law student living in Tulkarm in the West Bank. At the age of 15, she was shot in the stomach by an Israeli soldier as [...]

Zohar Shapira (Tel Aviv)

“At first I was running after children throwing stones. 12 years later I was shooting above children heads at their homes.” Photography by Dubi Roman Zohar Shapira, 40, is a teacher living in Tel Aviv. He served 15 years in the Israeli military, and for some of this time was a member of Israel’s top commando unit. [...]

Projects

“On both sides of the lens” video project

The Ramallah-Alquds-Jerusalem regional group is proud to present: A unique video project. The group will go through a six to seven meeting course guided by an experienced photographer, in which the basics of video will be studied. The group hopes to learn to use video media as an effective tool for strengthening [...]

In-House Meetings

CFP defines two main obstacles blocking the road to peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples: fear and ignorance. In order to fight the stereotyping and de-humanization inflicted by both sides on the other, we work to bring together as many people as possible from both sides so that they can gain a new perspective, [...]

Educational Tours in the Southern Nablus Region

Combatants for Peace’s Tel Aviv – Nablus group runs monthly tours of the villages and settlements of the Southern Nablus region. In the tours we visit the Separation Barrier in Elkana, the Ariel area, and the illegal outposts of the Eli/Shilo settlement block. At the end of all the tours we meet with Palestinian activists of the [...]

Promotional Film

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After watching and listening to everyone at the ceremony – speeches, facts and action – being a Palestinian I can see the hand reaching out for peace on the other side.

Yes, a thousand “yeses” for peace.
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