Mahouz Inan

Hi, Tanya.

It's great to be here with you.

Thank you for having us.

For us, sharing the pain is part of our personal healing process.

And it's still been going on for Aziz for a few decades and for me nearly three years.

And here we are today.

Yes.

First, it wasn't just my message.

It was a family message agreed between my three sisters, my young brother and myself.

And we took it only two days after losing my parents.

Every morning of the Shiva, the Shiva is the seven day Jewish morning of the death of a loved one.

And on the second morning, it was Monday morning, we were sitting, the five of us, early in the morning.

And my young brother, again, asked us to make a decision, to take a family decision that we are rejecting revenge.

And he explained to us that by revenging the death of our parents, we are not going to bring them back to life.

That's it.

They are dead.

And by avenging their deaths, we're only going to escalate the cycle of bloodshed, of pain, of suffering that we, we Palestinians and Israelis, have been trapped within for a century.

And he told us that it is within our family mission and legacy to continue the legacy of our beloved parents, Pila and Jacobi, that we must break this cycle and we must continue

take an alternative path, a path to peace and reconciliation.

And we took this decision because we knew what's going to happen.