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NEVER MORE RELEVANT: Activists take part in a Songs for Peace event held in Bradford yesterday. Around 100 people gathered to hear the Commoners Choir (pictured below) perform before a number of white poppy wreaths were laid in memory of the victims of all wars [Neil Terry Photography]

BEREAVED Israeli and Palestinian families called for an end to “hate and revenge” and for political leaders to instead seek sustainable peace and reconciliation at an alternative Remembrance Sunday ceremony in London today.

The call came from the joint Israeli-Palestinian Parents Circle – Families Forum (PCFF), which involves more than 600 families who have lost an immediate family member in the continuing conflict.

It was made at the annual National Alternative Remembrance Ceremony organised by the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) in Tavistock Square in London.

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