Main memorial ceremony organised by families of victims held at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park
People observe a moment of silence during a memorial ceremony to mark the first anniversary of the October 7th, 2023 attacks, in Tel Aviv. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Imageson southern Israel on October 7th. Israel says 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed that day and more than 250 seized and taken into captivity in Gaza. Some 100 hostages are still in Gaza, although Israel has said that some of them have died.
At 6:29am, the time of the first Hamas rocket salvo from Gaza a year ago, hundreds of protesters gathered close to the Jerusalem home of prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, calling for a ceasefire and hostage-release deal.‘In the next weeks we will not be here. We will all die or we will be displaced’At the same time relatives gathered at the site of the Nova music festival, close to the Gaza border, where 364 people were killed in the worst single massacre of October 7th.
Mr Netanyahu told ministers at a cabinet meeting on Monday the war against Hamas and Iran’s proxies should be officially called the War of Revival. Opposition leader Yair Lapid criticised the idea.
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