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COMBATANTS FOR PEACE - AT THE MINT,
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FORMER Israeli and Palestinian combatants who are now peace activists leading a meeting at the Mint.
Sixteen members of the organisation Combatants for Peace took part in the evening as part of the group's ongoing work to turn people in the Israeli-Palestinian situation away from violence. Around 100 people were present. Combatants for Peace, which was founded in 2005, is composed of numerous former combatants from both sides who now tour Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories and other parts of the world to tell their personal stories of turning their backs on violence.
The organisation, which includes former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and former members of Palestinian armed groups, stages special events using dialogue and innovative reconciliation methods, designed to find new solutions to entrenched situations of conflict.
Two members on the visit are Nour Shehadeh, 41, a former leader of his local Fatah military wing who was arrested and detained by the Israeli authorities several times, and Itamar Feigenbaum, 40, a former IDF soldier in the paratroopers brigade, who served in Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories in the 1990s.