“God of Peace, we ask you to cease this warfare in Gaza,” the El-Sayegh household and Rev. Dr. Fahed Abu-Akel, a Palestinian Presbyterian minister, joined collectively in prayer Sunday. They’re praying for an finish to the violence of their homeland. 

Lydia El-Sayegh says she has many members of the family simply making an attempt to remain alive, sheltering in a Christian church there with a whole lot of different folks, together with her grandmother and aunt. 

El-Sayegh hopes that sooner or later quickly the violence will finish, and Gaza can rise anew. She says for that to occur they want an instantaneous and lasting ceasefire.