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Daniela Bezzi

A journalist, cultural worker and independent researcher, she lived and worked for extended periods in Japan, the UK and India before settling back in Italy, where she contributes to various publications on environmental, human rights and labour issues.

21st Combatants For Peace Memorial Ceremony: Chen Alon and Sulaiman Khatib on how it all began

We are just a few days away from the Memorial Ceremony, which each year marks the most significant moment for the Combatants for Peace. This year, on April 20, not less than 58 locations around the world will answer the…

Interview with Israeli pacifist Omri Evron: “We won’t stop mobilizing, in Israel and around the world”

This Arab-Israeli peace movement never ceases to amaze us. Week after week it is reclaiming the streets, with a large number of demonstrations taking place at the same time on the evening of Saturday, April 11: beside the main protests…

Peace is possible, amplify our voices!

On the second anniversary of October 7, we receive and gladly share this message from Maoz Inon, who lost both his parents on that tragic day. Initially reported missing, Bilha and Yakovi Inon were later found burned to death inside…

The People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, final day. Israelis and Palestinians together to say ‘Peace now’

Thousands of people filled every available space at the International Convention Centre in Jerusalem yesterday for the People Peace Summit – and it was a great success, with a full house, enthusiastic applauses from the audience for all the speakers,…

People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, May 8 and 9. What kind of peace are we talking about?

Indeed: what kind? The question comes naturally, as we prepare to witness with bated breath the final showdown on every possible front: with the announced ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, with the Palestinians (already exhausted by the aid blockade,…

Towards the People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, 8-9 May. Women can make the difference!

We are now in the final countdown and here I am on the phone with these three formidable women, among the main organizers of the peace convention titled “The Time Has Come,” which filled the Menorah Stadium in Tel Aviv on July 1, 2024,…

Towards the People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, May 8-9. Many for the twentieth Joint Ceremony of the Combatantss for Peace

We already had a beautiful, shared and highly attended preview of what the now imminent People’s Peace Summit will be like last night with the twentieth edition of the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony, as always organized by Combatants for Peace…

Towards the People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, May 8-9. “Our full support to the civil society” says the Palestinian activist Nivine Sandouka

Nivine Sandouka is a Palestinian lifelong human rights activist and feminist, and is the current regional director of ALLMEP Alliance for Middle East Peace, a network of 170 organizations in various ways committed to building peace and a future of reconciliation.She previously worked…

Towards the People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, May 8-9. Interview with Aziz Abu Sarah

After the interview a few days ago with the Israeli pacifist Maoz Inon, we continue in our ‘behind the scenes’ reporting leading to the It’s Now Event in Jerusalem (May 8th – 9th) which promises to be the biggest Peace Assembly ever attempted in…

Towards the People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, 8th and 9th May. Interview with one of the organisers, Maoz Inon

Exactly one month from today, an event will take place in Jerusalem that the organisers have simply called I’s now, promising to be the largest peace convention ever attempted in the Middle East. And since we think that it will…

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