sraeli journalist Gideon Levy and Palestinian pastor Mitri Raheb on Thursday won the 2015 Olof Palme human rights prize for their „fight against occupation and violence“, the jury said.

Levy, a journalist at the left-leaning Israeli daily Haaretz, and Raheb, a preacher and pastor in the Lutheran church in Bethlehem, were honoured for their „courageous and indefatigable fight against occupation and violence, and for a future Middle East characterised by peaceful coexistence and equality for all,“ the Olof Palme Memorial Fund said in a statement.

„They both give a ray of hope to a conflict that has plagued and continues to plague millions of people and to endanger world peace,“ it said.