Chanting “yes, to peace, yes, to a deal”, hundreds of Palestinian and Jewish Israelis marched noisily through Tel Aviv on Thursday night, demanding an end to the offensive in Gaza and the cycle of violence, AFP reports.

Their agenda starts with a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, but ultimately, they want to reboot Palestinian-Israeli relations, and breathe new life into the moribund peace movement.

“It basically went silent after October 7,” and the start of the military campaign, Amira Mohammed, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, said of the peace camp. “The radicals became louder than the peace movement. So right now, we’ve got to be radical about the peace that we want.”

Mohammed said that included an “acknowledgement of the power dynamic between occupier and occupied” as well as “accountability on both sides”. “We can’t stop violence with more violence,” said teacher Carmit Bar Levy, 49.

“Peace is the only way forward,” said Marcelo Oliki, 64, a survivor ofthe Hamas-attacks on Kibbutz Nirim.

“There are children, women and babies dying just across the border from me.There are people there who are grieving too, just like me, and that want peace, too, like me.”

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