{"id":296302,"date":"2025-06-02T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=296302"},"modified":"2025-05-31T04:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T03:11:47","slug":"fasting-for-gazas-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/06\/fasting-for-gazas-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasting for Gaza’s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salam
\nI have recently finished a 40-day fast and prayer for the children of Gaza and
\nOthers parts of the world where children
\nAre being massacred by gov polices of cruelty militarism and war.
\nThe Israeli gov and its criminal Israeli
\nDefence force carry out genocidal mass
\nMurder of Palestinian unarmed civilians
\nIn their Zionist policies of ethnic
\nCleansing of Palestinian land. \u00a0This
\nIs aided by their friends in USA uk \u00a0and
\nEurope with money arms weapons and
\nPolitical support. \u00a0 Starvation of little
\nChildren and denying them water food
\nMedical care and their very lives is evil and war crimes and against international laws.
\nIt was in deep sorrow for the suffering of
\nPeople of Palestine that I undertook this fast.
\nI also prayed that I would not allow
\nSeeing such Israeli cruelty \u2019harden my
\nHeart\u2019 and I would not be bitter against
\nThe perpetrators of such violence but
\nWould deepen my love for all and
\nIncrease my acts of forgiveness nonviolent resistance and justice and peace.
\nI took liquids, no solids for 40 days.
\nI was tired and thought of Palestinians
\nIn Gaza trying to protect their children
\nFrom bombs and famine.
\nTo the people of Gaza and occupied West Bank I am very sorry for this
\nDeath and destruction perpetrated on
\nYour people.
\nthank you for your example of Sahmoud
\nThanks you for your resilience against
\nEvil and your courage in proclaiming
\nHuman dignity and decency for
\nPalestinians and the human family.
\nSalam aleikum
\nMairead Corrigan Maguire
\nNobel peace laureate
\nYour Irish friend who loves you
\n\u2018Stay gentle\u2019<\/p>\n

27 May 2025<\/em><\/p>\n

_________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder of Peace People, is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a>. She won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. Her book, The Vision of Peace, (edited by John Dear with a foreword by Desmond Tutu and a preface by the Dalai Lama) is available from <\/em>www.wipfandstock.com<\/em><\/a>. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: <\/em>www.peacepeople.com<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have recently finished a 40-day fast and prayer for the children of Gaza and
\nOthers parts of the world where children
\nAre being massacred by gov polices of cruelty militarism and war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":294438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[554,1854,1199,1268,2242,87,865,1966,1777,715,475,1074,427,249,70,965],"class_list":["post-296302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nobel-laureates","tag-children","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-european-union","tag-famine","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hunger","tag-mairead-maguire","tag-massacre","tag-netanyahu","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-palestine","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296458,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296302\/revisions\/296458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}