About 2,000 women convened at Israel’s Lebanese border earlier this month in the first leg of a cross-country march aimed at pressuring the nation’s leaders to resume peace talks with the Palestinians, Israeli daily Haaretz reported .
The event was reportedly launched by Women Wage Peace, a non-partisan organization founded two years ago, following Israel’s last war in Gaza.
Just as the Israeli political activists began their journey by foot from Rosh Hanikra to Jerusalem, another international women’s group, by mere coincidence, was heading toward Israel’s coastal waters bearing a political message of its own: end the blockade of Gaza. The Women’s Boat to Gaza, an initiative of the International Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which had set out from Barcelona, was intercepted offshore by the Israeli navy on Wednesday afternoon.
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November 1, 2025
