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    The Hamas massacre has led to a war that is now feeding off of the innocent lives of both Israelis and Palestinians. With each funeral and each shovel of soil dropped onto a coffin, another family is left shattered and the region is left even more divided than before.

    Yet, there鈥檚 an Arab, Israeli enclave that at its best can set an example for this war-torn region. In Hebrew its name translates to beautiful, and if you take one walk through the neighbourhood of Jaffa, you can鈥檛 help but marvel at its architecture and charm.

    Jaffa is a predominantly Arab suburb of Tel Aviv, where both Palestinians and Israelis live together.

    It has been a contested community for centuries and no stranger to riots, but those who call the 鈥渕ixed community鈥 of Jaffa home have largely found a way not only to co-exist, but to thrive.

    As a call to prayer from the local mosque echoes through their apartment, Canadian Daniella Haliva and her fianc茅e Alec Burkin reflect on the last two weeks

    鈥淥ur Arab, Israeli neighbours are our friends. They鈥檝e invited us into their homes and we鈥檝e reciprocated,鈥 says Alec Burkin, who goes on to share that 鈥渢here鈥檚 been really a common compassion over the course of the last week and we feel it鈥檚 important for us to let the world know that is the situation here in Jaffa, and Jaffa is an example for how Jews and Arab Israelis can live together in peace.鈥

    The couple were supposed to get married on October 12th, when Hamas militants began their attack in the south. They had 40 family members in Israel who had to scramble to get out.

    Burkin鈥檚 fianc茅e, who previously lived in Thornhill, Ont., north of Toronto, remembers the morning she heard the first wave of air raid sirens. 鈥淚 remember thinking that I鈥檓 dreaming, that this cannot be real.鈥

    Unfortunately for so many, it was, and another war had begun.

    Jaffa is a predominantly Arab suburb of Tel Aviv, where both Palestinians and Israelis live together. It has been a contested community for centuries and no stranger to riots, but those who call the 鈥渕ixed community鈥 of Jaffa home have largely found a way not only to co-exist, but to thrive. (Adrian Ghobrial, CTV National News)

    鈥淭he act of war is not working,鈥 says Rula Daood, a Palestinian who also calls Jaffa home and is quick to point out, 鈥淗amas doesn鈥檛 speak for me, I don鈥檛 believe of the killing of innocent people.鈥

    Daood is the national director for , which works to mobilize Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality and social justice. She鈥檚 witnessed firsthand the failure of previous Gaza wars. 鈥淲e still have Hamas, whether we like it or not,鈥 she says, 鈥渁nd this is the only party you can talk to in Gaza right now, and we have to find a way to talk.鈥

    Daood believes there are political solutions to this decades-long conflict, but what鈥檚 been lacking is will.

    鈥淚nnocent people have been dying on both sides and I think we need to cut off that chain of blood,鈥 she says.

    Haliva has spent the last seven years teaching gymnastics to children from all different ethnic backgrounds at Jaffa's Arab Jewish Community Centre. Speaking from her experience, Haliva shares, 鈥淚t鈥檚 like a microcosm of how things can be. I think we can learn a lot from children and the kids and how you can get along and live together 鈥 and have a purpose together.鈥

    In Jaffa鈥檚 streets, Arab children speak Hebrew to their Jewish neighbours as they kick a soccer ball around together. A small, simple example that this war doesn鈥檛 have to define a region.

    A path forward in the short term, according to Daood, 鈥渋s to end the occupation, free Palestinians in Gaza, as well as all the hostages taken by Hamas."

    People sit in a restaurant in the Jaffa neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

    She adds that Palestinians in Gaza 鈥渨ant a chance to live a life, get a job, raise their families in peace, and the Jewish communities outside of Gaza deserve to live in safety and security too. Having rockets fired at you is no way to live 鈥 it鈥檚 no way to raise a family.鈥

    When asked what his conversations have been like with his Muslim neighbours since the attack Burkin shares that, 鈥渨e have our commonalties on the street and share small talk between neighbours, checking in on each other. It gives me hope that this is a place where we can live together.鈥

    Daood shares a similar sentiment. 鈥淚f we can replicate what is happening in Jaffa in the good days, then it will be a great society for all of us.鈥

    A touching beacon of solidarity, during a time of intense division, across the region. 

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