The Jerusalem – Nablus Call to end the war
For the sake of humankind
Are we not the same blood groups ?
End all fighting now.
Let them all go home,
All the forsaken survivors,
The hostages, the displaced.
Let the fighters lay down their arms,
let them all recover from the deadly din of war.
The only final victory is to break the endless cycle of retaliations.
We are all in counted time, on a limited stretch of land. Let us make the best of it, both in separation and togetherness.
In support of the European border commitment at the Rafah Crossing with Egypt, we call all parties to remedy the condition of severely suffering civilians.
For a true cessation of hostilities, we call for a permanent end to all attack tunnels,
and empowering the lasting reconstruction of Gaza within a peaceful, demilitarized Palestinian state alongside Israel.
From the end of 2023 to the end of 2024 there have been several calls for a lasting cessation of hostilities, some of them launched from Jerusalem and Nablus. Strangely, only a handful of Nobel laureates supported them. One of these calls was broadcast in May 2024 :
THE JERUSALEM AND NABLUS CALL FOR THE RELEASE OF ALL HOSTAGES
Halas ! Khlass ! Hebrew like Arabic : ENOUGH !
Enough torture for the hostages and their families !
Enough torture for the displaced, Israelis and Palestinians !
Let them all go home now, to heal the wounds.
Eighteen countries* call for the immediate release of all hostages held in Gaza, starting with the women, the wounded, the elderly, the sick.
The fate of the hostages and the civilian population in Gaza has become one.
With the eighteen we whole-heartedly support the ongoing negotiations.
“We’re talking about people, and we all need to act, right now, to end this story.”**
- Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States
- in one of the hostages’ parent’s words
Supported by
Peace laureates : Dr Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, Kailash Sathyarti, Jody Williams
Chemistry : Elias Corey, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Jean-Marie Lehn
Médicine : Rich Roberts
Physics : Gerard ‘t Hooft
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