A community space and kitchen in a displaced people’s camp in the Gaza Strip has been named for Vivian Silver, a 74-year-old Canadian-born peace activist killed during the Hamas deadly attack in her home in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7.

After the war in Gaza in 2014, Silver co-founded Women Wage Peace, which struggle for a pacific settlement to the conflict and brings together women from both Israeli and Palestinian societies. She also served on the board of directors of B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization. In addition, Silver regularly volunteered for the organization Road to Recovery, which provided transportation for sick Palestinians from Gaza to Israel for medical treatment.

A sign carrying Silver’s photograph and name was put up a month ago in the al-Mawasi in southern Gaza. The place was created by the Palestinian NGO Damour for Community Development, which works closely with Israel’s Arava Institute for Environmental Studies.

The community space and kitchen in the Gaza Strip named for the Israeli peace campaigner Vivian Silver (Photo: Zo Haderech)

Vivian Silver was declared missing for more than a month, believed to have been one of some 250 people abducted by Hamas, but on November 14, her family confirmed that her remains had been identified via DNA. Her house was badly burned, as was much of the kibbutz, where over 100 people were slaughtered by the Gazan invaders — some 10% of the community’s population.

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