We have just learned with horror that Raafat Abu Khalil, 41, died as a result of a heart attack while being detained by Israeli occupation forces at Anab checkpoint east of Tulkaram.
Raafat Abu Khalil was the cousin of a member of “Bridges of Hope” who was hosted in Switzerland from September 24 to October 4. The news broke while the group was at the Geneva airport, about to return to Israel or Palestine. Everyone left with heavy hearts.
Our thoughts are with Ali and his family amid this outburst of daily violence.
Coexistences has once again received a large number of requests this year from Palestinian and Israeli dialogue groups wishing to organize a working trip to Switzerland. In response to these requests, we will welcome four groups in 2026:
The Rossing Center is an organization for education and interfaith dialogue based in Jerusalem. It has set up a new two-year training project for school principals and teachers to provide them with the tools to deliver education that promotes respect, equality, and the pursuit of peace. It is in this context that we will welcome a group of school principals accompanied by two experienced facilitators.
You are interested by our activities ? Contact us, we always welcome new members and families interested by an enriching and transformative experience.
Coexistences believes that listening to the other side makes it possible to change the perception of the other, and that coexistence will not emerge from big changes but instead from small evolutions. It is to this end that we wish to help develop the aptitudes of dialogue of women and men engaged in a process of encounter and mutual acknowledgement.
However small our action might be, we hope to contribute in a reciprocal understanding and to the coexistence of populations that have been deeply marked by tens of years of a violent conflict, which has erected a wall of misunderstanding.
