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Munayer

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2022-05-26
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2022-05-26
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  1. “We heard about what is happening in Masafer Yatta, with Israel’s High Court of Justice ruling, but also in Silwan, 90 per cent of which has been zoned for Solomon’s Garden, which would leave only 10 per cent of the housing not demolished. As a civil-society organization, Musalaha is committed to supporting a just political solution through non-violent and positive engagement, gender equality and the participation of women and advocating for a just solution from the bottom up. But I urge the Security Council to play its role in applying pressure from the top to the bottom.”

    2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source

  2. “Church land was confiscated, and attacks were carried out during religious ceremonies. The attack carried out during Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral in a church hospital is a case in point. It speaks to the need for protection and the freedom of the press. The third area I would like to bring up is accountability. In our model, reconciliation is not possible without justice. Reconciliation means upholding human rights. Reconciliation means working towards equality. Reconciliation means ending the occupation. We need international pressure, intervention and accountability to protect the residents of Jerusalem — our participants, who are going back to their homes and are facing threats of demolitions and settler and police violence.”

    2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source

  3. “I also want to reiterate that there are students in Tel Aviv University who were protesting with Palestinian flags. In response to that, there was a member of Knesset who stood up in front of the whole Parliament and said, “Do not forget what happened to you in 1948”. These are concerning and disturbing comments made by politicians. On my second point — freedom of religion and belief — as an organization, we believe that religion and faith can be used as a positive means of engagement and build bridges between people. Yet we can see that Israel is trying to turn this into a religious conflict. Worshippers were attacked during prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Mosque itself — the third holiest site in Islam — was damaged. Palestinian Christians had limited access and were even denied access to the Church of the Resurrection and the Old City.”

    2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source

  4. “In terms of civic space, the ability to meet and engage together positively is shrinking. In addition, civil society within Ramallah, Bethlehem and Jerusalem are cut off from each other, and there is very little ability for them to engage with one another. A major factor that hinders our ability to do reconciliation is the imbalance of power. I come from a neighbourhood in Jerusalem where there is the Jewish neighbourhood and the Palestinian village. There was a joint initiative to bring people together to discuss the core issues that exist in our village and neighbourhood. The main issues, according to the Palestinians, are house demolitions and obtaining building permits. On the Israeli side, the primary concern was too many stray cats.”

    2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source

  5. “After our participants go through this process, we then ask them to go back into the community, to engage with the people in society, to deal with the core issues of the conflict and to co-resist the injustices that exist in our society. But in reality, on the ground, Israelis and Palestinians who go back home go back to very different political realities. Many of our Palestinian participants go back to a military occupation, and many of them are still living in refugee camps. Many of our Israeli participants go back to Tel Aviv or other cities where the conflict is almost not felt. I would like to highlight three distinct areas that are damaging our ability to make an impact regarding reconciliation back home — civic space, freedom of religion and belief and accountability.”

    2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source

  6. “Mr. Munayer: My name is Daniel Munayer. I was born and raised in Jerusalem. I come from an old Palestinian Christian family from the city of Lydda. Through the Eastern Orthodox Church, we can trace our presence in the land for 800 years. Today I am the Executive Director of Musalaha, which means reconciliation in Arabic. We do reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as between Muslim and Christian Palestinians. The way we do reconciliation is by taking groups together to the desert, where they meet for the first time. After spending five days together in the desert, we have a series of workshops in which we address various subjects, such as conflict, identity, obstacles to reconciliation and history and narrative.”

    2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source