The rally, co-hosted by left-wing NGOs Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle-Families Forum, showed grieving Israelis and Palestinians who lost loved ones in war or in incidents as a result of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Gere called on participants to create a world where children can grow up without fear.
“Until the Palestinians have a home, the Israelis will not have a home,” Gere said.
Israelis and Palestinians remember their stories, with artist Tamar Peikes, and remember how she lost her father in the Six Day War and her brother in the Yom Kippur War.
Layla Alsheikh from the town of Battir, outside the West Bank, outside Jerusalem, recalled how her six-month-old son Qusay was overcome in 2002 by IDF tear gas in their home.
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His ‘breathing rate increases’ and ‘eyes look at me like a scared bird’, Alsheikh recalls.
She and her husband got into their car so they could drive him to the hospital, but soldiers closed their village and each road was blocked for four hours.
By the time they could leave, it was too late to save her son. Alsheikh never bought him a bicycle or saw him study at school.
Instead, he lay alone in a dark cold grave, away from the warmth of my lap. This cold consumes everything in me. ‘
She put an end to ‘injustice and hatred’.