‘We repent of the ways we have not stood alongside our Palestinian siblings in faithful witness in the midst of their grief, agony and sorrow.’
The events of Oct. 7 — the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — still dominate Israeli consciousness.
For five months, the world’s focus on Gaza has been intense. But North American Anabaptists have been building relationships with people in Gaza through a twinning initiative for over four years.
MCC staff were reaching out to MCC partners in Gaza to see if they were safe in the wake of days of bombing and military strikes by the Israeli military following a series of coordinated attacks on Israelis by Hamas on Oct. 7.
Mennonite Central Committee is responding to recent events in Palestine and Israel with a call to prayer, emergency food and other relief and advocacy for a just peace.
