This October 7 marks one year since Hamas attacked Israel, provoking the Gaza war, described as the deadliest in the country’s history. Israelis gathered to hold vigils to remember those who died during a holiday, catching military forces off guard. Meanwhile, the Israeli Army announced this day a “precise attack” against an operations center of the Islamist group.
The Israeli Army announced this Monday, one year after the Hamas terrorist attack against Israeli territory, that it carried out a “precise attack” against what it denounced as an operations center of the Islamist group inside the ‘Shuhada al-Alqsa hospital. ‘ in the Gaza Strip.
Israelis gathered at cemeteries and sites to hold ceremonies and vigils to commemorate the victims of the October 7, 2023, attack, during a holiday. The Hamas attack killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 250 hostages, The Associated Press shared.
After 12 months, the war in Gaza continues, with Israel waging a new war against Hezbollah, which began attacking Israel on October 8, and an intensifying conflict with Iran, which threatens to drag the region into a much more dangerous conflagration.
Israel launches attack on Hamas operations center
For its part, the Israeli Army bombed an operations center of the Islamist group inside the ‘Shuhada al-Alqsa’ hospital in the Gaza Strip, EFE reported.
“Recently, under the instructions of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israeli Security Agency (ISA), the Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out a precise strike against Hamas terrorists operating a control center inside the ‘Shuhada al-Aqsa’ hospital in Deir al Balah,” says an Army statement.
It is currently unknown whether there are any casualties or damage caused by the new Israeli airstrike. “These centers were used by Hamas terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against Israeli forces troops and the State of Israel. “Prior to the attack, measures were carried out to mitigate harm to civilians,” they added.
They remember the victims at the same place of the attack
At 6:30 a.m., the exact time Hamas launched its attack, families of those killed at the Nova music festival, along with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, gathered at the site where nearly 400 people were murdered. shot and from where many others were taken hostage.
After briefly playing the same trance music that was blasted during the festival, hundreds of relatives and friends of the victims observed a moment of silence, as the rumblings of fighting could be heard in Gaza, just a few kilometers away.
“When we are here, we are close to our loved ones, this is the moment when they danced and ran away,” Sigal Bar-On whose niece, Yuval Bar-On, 25, and her fiancé Moshe Shuva, from 34, they were supposed to get married in December 2023.
Family of hostages gather near Netanyahu’s residence
At 6:31 a.m., four projectiles were launched from Gaza toward the same Israeli communities that were viciously attacked last year, the Israeli military reported. The ceremony was not interrupted.
The families of the hostages still held in Gaza, numbering around 100, gathered near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem and stood during a two-minute siren, replicating a custom from the most recent dates. solemn days of the Israeli calendar, Holocaust Remembrance and Remembrance Day, AP shared.
“We are here to remind them (the hostages) that we have not forgotten them,” Shiri Albag, whose daughter Liri is among the hostages, told the AP. His message to Netanyahu: “We will not let you rest until all of them return, every last one of them,” he told the crowd, which raised the faces of the hostages.
Official state ceremony one year after the attack
The same news agency said an official state ceremony focusing on acts of bravery and hope will be broadcast on Monday night. The ceremony was pre-recorded without an audience, apparently to avoid possible interruptions, in the southern town of Ofakim, where more than two dozen Israelis were killed.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Sunday, October 6, in a meeting with soldiers deployed on the country’s northern front, close to the border with Lebanon, that Israel is “changing reality from one extreme to the other.”
“A year ago we suffered a terrible blow. “In the last 12 months, we are changing reality from one extreme to the other,” Netanyahu said.
The war in Gaza has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians, displaced thousands of residents and sparked a humanitarian crisis, while ceasefire efforts by the United States and more countries have failed.
With information from AP and EFE
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