Many of you have surely been following the news of the recent events overtaking Israel and Gaza. We urge you to pray for our CMJ colleagues in the Land,
and we offer some guidance to inform those prayers. The rocketing of the south and central parts of Israel have been intense since last week, doing real damage and costing many lives in Israel and Gaza.
Notwithstanding Hamas’ deadly rocket barrages at Israeli population centers and Israel’s tough responses, especially heartbreaking is the eruption of widespread violence between Jews and Arabs within Israel itself
(which has not been seen to this degree since the 1948 war). The mayor of Lod, a city in central Israel with a mixed population of Arabs and Jews, said that the recent Kristallnacht-like violence
has destroyed decades of effort at co-existence. There has been mass rioting and violence, reports of lynchings by mobs and hundreds of wounded civilians both in Israel and the West Bank.
Image: Archival photo of Hamas rockets fired from Gaza. Photo by IDF via Flickr.
Many of you have surely been following the news of the recent events overtaking Israel and Gaza. We urge you to pray for our CMJ colleagues in the Land, and we offer some guidance to inform those prayers. The rocketing of the south and central parts of Israel have been intense since last week, doing real damage and costing many lives in Israel and Gaza.
Notwithstanding Hamas’ deadly rocket barrages at Israeli population centers and Israel’s tough responses, especially heartbreaking is the eruption of widespread violence between Jews and Arabs within Israel itself (which has not been seen to this degree since the 1948 war). The mayor of Lod, a city in central Israel with a mixed population of Arabs and Jews, said that the recent Kristallnacht-like violence has destroyed decades of effort at co-existence. There has been mass rioting and violence, reports of lynchings by mobs and hundreds of wounded civilians both in Israel and the West Bank.
Image: Archival photo of Hamas rockets fired from Gaza. Photo by IDF via Flickr.
