By Ronda Cooperstein, WBW Baltimore Chapter Co-Coordinator, June 16, 2026

On Sunday, June 14th, 2026, the WBW Baltimore Chapter joined with Baltimore Friends of Combatants for Peace (CFP) at Homewood Friends Meeting House to share the CFP Commemoration of the Nakba, which took place 78 years ago.

We also acknowledged that June 5th, 2026 was Naksa (the setback) Day, when Palestinians were once again displaced in 1967. The audience was moved and inspired by the presentation, and we all committed ourselves to doing everything we possibly can to keep supporting Palestinians at every level.

In addition to screening the CFP Commemoration of the Nakba, we shared a short video of 19-year-old Nada Jwaifel, a young Gazan woman who was buried in the rubble after a vicious bombing in 2023. A journalist captured the moment when rescuers dug her out of the rubble, and that photo went viral. Nada lost all of her brothers and sisters, and her grandmother. Her parents survived.

Nada was at risk of leg amputation and infection, but through a network of caring and determined people, she was brought to Baltimore with her mother to be treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she is now an out-patient. Nada’s father, refused a visa, currently resides in Tunisia. We collected donations for Nada and her mother, who struggle financially, in addition to the many other struggles they face residing so far from their homeland. There are millions of war-wounded across the globe, and our Baltimore WBW Chapter is doing what we can to educate and inspire others to work with us to support victims and end war, once and for all.

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