TEL AVIV: With candles, prayers and music, commemorations for the October 7 assault started in Israel’s Tel Aviv on Sunday at a ceremony to mark the primary anniversary of the Hamas onslaught on the Nova music competition.
Image of these killed appeared on a display screen on the entrance to the ceremony, as lots of gathered to gentle candles at a makeshift shrine, go away handwritten notes or just embrace one another.
“Coming to this occasion one 12 months after this horrible bloodbath that occurred on October 7, it’s extremely touching, it’s extremely breathtaking,” mentioned one of many occasion’s organisers Solly Laniado.
“Three days in the past, we weren’t even going to carry the occasion in any respect,” he mentioned, citing the deluge of rocket warnings and final week’s missile assault on Tel Aviv which have left many individuals on edge and enormous elements of the normally vibrant metropolis empty.
