Prayers for Peacemakers May 25, 2016
Pray for the children of Hebron’s Old City as they finish
their school year. Pray that the
academic year 2016-2017 will be free of tear gas, humiliation at checkpoints
and filled with adults inspired to intervene on their behalf so they can
receive an education.
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Earlier this year, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party – the PKK – announced it would disband, bringing to a close a decades-long armed struggle against the
In August, CPT Reservist Maggie Hindley returned to Al Khalil/Hebron after a few years. She reunited with those she’d met before, and reflects on the changes in their daily lives after two years of war in Gaza.
Seven months on from the PKK’s unilateral ceasefire, bombardments and attacks by the Turkish Armed Forces in Iraqi Kurdistan seem to have ceased. But the increasing military presence by both actors makes the situation appear fragile.