Thousands gather in London to mark two years since 7 October attacks

Thousands of people gathered in Hamas’s Trafalgar Square, London to celebrate two years since the most deadly attacks in the history of Israel on 7 October 2023.

Candles were also burned for affected Deadly attack Apart from a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday.

One of the many people who took place in the UK today – shared the same Central London position as the demonstrations of the banned group on Saturday, supporting the Palestinian action. Approximately 500 protesters arrested.

Addressing the crowd, British Jewish deputies (BOD) President Phil Rosenberg said that the community is determined to “confront anti -Semitism wherever it looks,” he said.

Another speaker at the event on Sunday said, “Today, we remember the ruthlessly valuable lives taken from the middle of October 7.”

“We remember all the next persecution since that original day.”

Sharone Fifschitz, who was taken hostage from their parents in the attacks, said that the crowd had “almost two years since our lives were torn apart.”

83 -year -old Oded Lifshitz, his father Hamas died in captivity. 85 -year -old Yocheved mother was released in late October 2023.

He said: “We will never forget our loved ones or the horror they are exposed to, and our hearts mourned for their last hate crimes and murders in Manchester.

“It could be when we arrived today today [together] Demanding the end of the war as a community.

Shaun Lemel, who participated in the Nova Music Festival, one of the sites in Israel where Hamas attacked on October 7, said that the experience would “never leave me”.

“We are fighting not only for Israel, but with the right to life every person [in] Peace and security, “he said.

After an attack on a synagogue in the city on Thursday, despite security concerns, hundreds of people attended a rally in Manchester.

Organized by Israel’s north -west friends, the meeting held posters and posters of people who want to release Israel flags and some hostages

At the London event, Mr. Rosenberg described the Palestinian action protests as “unacceptable” for the same week with the murder of two men in the Heaton Park Hebrew community synagogue in Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in the Jewish religious calendar.

However, our jury member Zoe Cohen, who responded to the criticism of the event on Saturday, said that he mourned after the scary synagogue attack, as a Jewish person, for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were killed, replaced and starved in Gaza.

“I think we can be compassionate and open our hearts to victims of more than one persecution at once.”

“Today’s vigil was canceled, we would allow it to gain terror,” he said in a statement published during the protest.

On Tuesday, in Israel and around the world, October 7 will be held for two years since the attacks on Israel, and about 1,200 people have been killed and 251 people were hostage.

According to the Ministry of Health, operated by Hamas of the region, the Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response, and has killed at least 66,288 people so far. Most of the Gaza population was repeatedly displaced and it is estimated that more than 90% of the houses were damaged or destroyed.

Israel has forbade international journalists from entering independently in Gaza since the beginning of the war and made it difficult to verify from both sides.

Twenty -four months later, the military action still continues.

USA last week Announced a 20 -point plan for peaceThis proposed to end the fight, including the release of 20 living Israeli hostages organized by Hamas in exchange for hundreds of detainees.

On Friday, Hamas said he agreed to release the hostages, but he did not get into details about offers.

US President Donald Trump said that hostages held in Gaza on Sunday think “Very soon” is releasedThe mediators were prepared to meet in Egypt on Monday for indirect peace talks between Hamas and Israel.