Jewish and Muslim dignitaries have launched a passionate appeal for peace on Saturday from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as deadly fighting rages in the Gaza Strip, AFP reports.

A “Jewish-Muslim Initiative for Peace” was presented and signed at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Centre by the President of the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations and American lawyer, Menachem Rosensaft, and the religious leader of Bosnian Muslims, Husein Kavazovic.

“We join together in sorrow and our tears become prayers, prayers of remembrance, but also prayers of hope,” Rosensaft — who is also general counsel emeritus of the World Jewish Congress — said at the ceremony.

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