Still traumatized, fighting on several fronts, Israel commemorates this Monday the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on its territory on October 7, 2023 which triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.
The day before, thousands of people gathered in London, Paris, Berlin and even Geneva for a tribute to the victims of October 7. At the same time, in London, Paris, Caracas, Washington, Rabat and Cape Town, tens of thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday and Sunday their support for the Palestinians in Gaza but also in Lebanon.
Information to remember
⇒ Israel commemorates the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023
⇒ Hamas’s military wing claims rocket fire from Gaza into Israel
⇒ Israeli soldier killed near Lebanese border
08:25
Israeli president calls on world to ‘support Israel in its fight against its enemies’
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on the world on Monday to “support Israel in its fight against its enemies”, on the first anniversary of the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against the Jewish state. October 7, 2023 leaves “a scar on humanity […] a scar on the face of the Earth”, and “the world must realize and understand that to change the course of history and bring peace and a better future to the region, it must support Israel in its fight against its enemies,” Isaac Herzog wrote in a statement.
07:55
Families Forum announces death of hostage held in Gaza
The Families Forum announced this Monday the death of an Israeli hostage one year to the day after his kidnapping at the Nova music festival during the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on southern Israel. “The Hostage Families Forum mourns the murder of Idan Shtivi”, 28, whose “body is still” in Gaza, the Forum writes in a statement, as Israel marks the first anniversary of the deadliest day of its history.
07:41
For Macron, “the pain remains as acute as it was a year ago”
The French president sent on X this Monday morning his “fraternal thoughts” to the victims, the hostages and the “families with hearts broken by absence or waiting”. “The pain remains as acute as a year ago”, “that of the Israeli people, ours, that of wounded humanity”, he wrote.
Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed Sunday to Benjamin Netanyahu France’s “unwavering commitment” to the security of Israel, during a telephone conversation intended to dispel the unease between the two countries the day after the French president’s declarations calling for stopping certain arms deliveries to Israel.
07:00
Israel commemorates the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023
In Réïm, at the scene of the Nova music festival where at least 370 people were killed, a collected crowd kicked off these ceremonies with a minute of silence at precisely 6:29 a.m., the time at which Hamas launched its attack on southern Israel. Israeli President Isaac Herzog took part in the ceremony alongside the families of the victims.
Just before, the hypnotic sounds of the last music heard on this site, a year earlier, resonated for a few minutes in front of a crowd of bereaved families, many in tears, some wearing the faces of their slain loved one on their clothes. As the music was abruptly cut off, as was the case on the day of the attack, a cry of distress broke the silence. The kadfish, the prayer for the dead, was read by several fathers who lost their sons at the Nova festival.
06:29
Hamas’ military wing claims rocket fire from Gaza into Israel
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, claimed responsibility for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip on southern Israel this Monday morning, as the country marked the start of the First Day ceremonies. anniversary of the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023. “We aimed [un kibboutz et une base militaire ainsi qu’un rassemblement de soldats israéliens] with a number of rockets,” said a statement from the al-Qassam Brigades.
The Israeli army announced a few minutes earlier that it had intercepted three projectiles coming from the Gaza Strip, “shot down”, a fourth having “fallen on an uninhabited area”.
06:10
Israeli soldier killed near Lebanese border
An Israeli soldier was killed and two others seriously injured in combat near the border with Lebanon, the army announced on Monday. “Master Sergeant Etay Azulay fell in combat on the Lebanese border,” the Israeli army said in a statement, without further details.
06:00
Lebanon: four Israeli raids against the southern suburbs of Beirut
The official Lebanese agency Ani reported four Israeli raids on Sunday evening against the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold that has been shelled for several days, with the Israeli army saying it had targeted the movement’s weapons warehouses there. “Enemy warplanes carried out two strikes on the southern suburbs, the first targeting the Sainte-Thérèse district, and the second the Bourj al-Barajneh district,” the agency said. Ani then reported two other Israeli strikes in the suburbs, including one against the town of Hadath, which it described as “violent”.
In a statement released overnight from Sunday to Monday, the Israeli army said its aircraft had struck “terrorist targets at Hezbollah intelligence headquarters” and “weapons storage facilities” of the armed movement in the Beirut region. “Secondary explosions were identified after the strikes, indicating the presence of weapons,” the army added.