Hamas Notes Second Annivesary Of Terrorist Attacks By Launching Missiles
What was once unthinkable in a democracy is now a grim reality. Meanwhile, grotesque accusations of “genocide” are hurled at the world’s only Jewish state as it defends itself against Hamas,
Two years ago today, the world witnessed one of the most brutal and barbaric terrorist attacks in modern history. In a single day, Hamas-led terrorists crossed into southern Israel from Gaza and murdered over 1,200 people — men, women, children, and the elderly including Holocaust survivors —at a music festival, on the streets, and inside their homes and took more than 250 individuals, including many foreigners, hostage. Around 48 of them, living and deceased, continue to suffer in Hamas captivity to this day.
The CEO of the Counter Extremism Project, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, remarked, “The scale and savagery of the October 7 atrocity shocked the conscience of world—but all too fleetingly. Two years on, the response has not been justice, nor any semblance of peace for Jewish people. Instead, we have seen a resurgence of antisemitism—across universities, city streets, international bodies, and digital platforms. This resurgence is common knowledge. But now, it has breached thresholds once thought impossible. Last week, October 2, Melvin Cravitz was murdered walking to his synagogue for Yom Kippur services in Manchester, England. This is only the second known antisemitic murder in the UK in 350 years—a Jew murdered for being a Jew—since Jews were permitted to return to England in 1658. In the aftermath, “Free Palestine” demonstrations contained elements “almost gloating over the Yom Kippur attack,” according to the Board of Deputies of British Jews."
Wallace went on to say, "What was once unthinkable in a stable democratic society is now a grim reality. Meanwhile, and relatedly, grotesque accusations of “genocide” are hurled at the world’s only Jewish state as it defends itself against Hamas, a terrorist organization with actual genocidal intentions of killing every Israeli which proudly pledges to repeat October 7 again and again. This is morally perverse and should be firmly rejected. Mobs chant “from the river to the sea” in Western capitals while Jews are beaten in the streets. Antisemitism is now made mainstream once again. October 7 was a warning to the free world and once again laid bare the murderous intent of Islamist terror. Today, as we mark two years since that black day, we remember the victims. We call on governments, institutions, and individuals of conscience to understand the diverse manifestations of antisemitism and recognise it as a danger to any open and free society, to disavow the wildly disproportionate anti-Israel posturing, and to strongly and publicly stand with Jewish communities."
As Israel noted the second anniversary of the deadly October 7, 2023 terrorist assault, Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket into Israel. It coincided with the Jewish Sukkot holiday. The rocket triggered air-raid sirens in Netiv HaAsara, most likely landed within that border community but caused no injuries, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Last week, while Jews commemorated Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, Gazan terrorists launched five rockets at Israel. Four were intercepted, while the fifth landed in an open area, according to the IDF. The rockets caused air-raid sirens to sound in the Lakhish region of south-central Israel, including in Ashdod. No casualties or damage were reported. Also that day, the Israeli air force reportedly intercepted two additional rockets fired from northern Gaza. Air-raid sirens sounded in several border communities, including Kfar Aza, Sa’ad, Mefalsim and the Nir Am Shooting Range.