Ambassador Issa Kassissieh at the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Invocation for Peace in the Holy Land presided by His Holiness in the Vatican Gardens.
On 8 June 2014, His Holiness Pope Francis, the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, the then-President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, made history in an unprecedented event in which the leaders planted an olive tree for peace in the Vatican Gardens.