Hundreds packed the York Jewish Community Center for a prayer vigil Thursday evening.
"I feel like it’s a horrible thing that people have to live through that," Pottorff said about the ongoing war in Israel."There’s bombs going off and people getting hurt and kidnapped. I think it’s horrible."
Pottorff's cousins are on the frontlines of the conflict, not far from Gaza. These photos were taken Thursday morning - His cousin Ari, holding his kids on top of his rifle."I’m scared every day that I might not get another text from him or I might not see him at the next family reunion," Wyatt said.
"We’re Christians but I did explain to him coming here that we were going to be praying to god," she said holding back tears,"that there are people fighting and being mean to each other, and we want to pray that they would be at peace and be nice to each other again.""Human life is holy," Rabbi Melody Davis from Temple Beth Israel expressed."And all human beings should see one another as kin.
"I had the blessing to go to Israel in 2015," State Representative Seth Grove of York County said."There's no hate, just families working and living just like we do every day.""I think it’s great that everyone is coming together to support a cause," Wyatt said."Maybe it’s not us personally, but in our minds, and in our communities, it affects everybody in way or another.
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