Eye witness perspectives on Middle East peace
Eye witness perspectives on Middle East peace, World Council of Churches
The Anglican primate of Ireland, directors of Christian development organizations in Europe and church leaders in Jerusalem have acted and spoken on peace for Israel and Palestine based on what each of them has seen on the ground.
A directors’ delegation from APRODEV – the Association of World Council of Churches (WCC) related Development Organizations in Europe – who visited Gaza during the World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel, have urged Ministers of Foreign Affairs in the European Union (EU) to also go there and “witness for themselves the denigrating circumstances in which the people of Gaza live.”
The delegation members, all of whom are EU citizens, “were particularly disappointed by the inappropriateness and ineffectiveness of the European Union policies to achieve peace,” according to an APRODEV press release on the visit….