We are honored to share that Comet-ME has been awarded the 2025 Michael Sattler Peace Prize by the German Mennonite Peace Committee (DMFK), “for its outstanding peace work in the West Bank, providing electricity, water, and internet access to rural off-grid Palestinian villages.”
In the peace church tradition, peace is not merely the absence of conflict—it is justice, equity, access to resources, safety, dignity, and care for the earth. This understanding aligns deeply with our mission at Comet-ME.
We are humbled to receive this prize. But it is not ours alone. It is, above all, a tribute to the communities we serve: to their resilience, their dignity, and their unwavering refusal to be erased.
As our CEO, Asmahan Simry, said in her acceptance speech:
“Our work is not ultimately about wires, solar panels, or pipes. It is about people. It is about children walking through military checkpoints to reach school. It is about elders who tend their flocks and refuse to leave the hills where their ancestors are buried. It is about young people building homes, even knowing they may be demolished. It is about life—insistently asserting itself in the face of everything designed to extinguish it.”
Thanks to the generous hospitality of the German Mennonite community, we were honored to share the stage with the remarkable Deborah Feldman and to engage in open, honest conversations with hundreds of German citizens and international guests about Palestine—about the urgent need for solidarity and meaningful action.
As Israel’s efforts to annex land and forcibly displace Palestinian communities in Area C escalate daily, this prize is also a call—a call to speak out, to organize, and to pressure governments and institutions to uphold international law and human rights. It is a call to resist erasure by standing with those who refuse to be uprooted and who insist on living with dignity in the face of systemic injustice.