US church delegation holds interfaith prayer service near Israel's border with Gaza
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During an August 18, 2024, interfaith prayer service for peace along the Israel-Gaza border at the Maon Synagogue near Kibbutz Nirim, an air raid siren sent participants to the ground to take cover.
In blue jeans and blue shirt is the Rev. Larry Clark, a United Methodist pastor in the U.S. state of Ohio. Clark was a member of a delegation that came to the middle east to accompany threatened Christians and other Palestinians and call for a ceasefire in Gaza. At the interfaith service, delegation members prayed for peace with Jewish and Muslim participants.
On the left (with the yellow wristband) is Rabbi Avi Dabush, who survived the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Kibbutz Nirim, and currently is displaced by the war.
In addition to the air raid siren, which sounded an all cear after several minutes, the nearby explosion of bombs inside Gaza frequently disrupted the service.
Photo by Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures
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