Israel remembers a sad day today. 3 years ago the group Hamas attacked the country. That was on 7 October 2023. About 1200 people died. Many of them were normal people. The group also took 251 people as hostages. They brought the hostages into the Gaza strip.
Many places in Israel have memorial feasts now. At the beach of Tel Aviv lie 1200 cloths in the sand. They look like shadows of people. Each cloth stands for one victim. Candles burn at the place of the music festival too. Young people partied there when the attack started. 50000 people meet in a park in Tel Aviv in the evening.
President Izchak Herzog lit a candle in the morning. He wrote about the big pain on the internet. But many people also criticize the government. They say: The security groups failed back then. Therefore protests happened in Jerusalem. The people demand a precise check of the mistakes.
A hard war started in the Gaza strip after the attack. Israel attacks targets of the Hamas there. Reports say more than 74000 people died so far. Many people live in tents in the Gaza strip. Material for building houses is missing. A permanent peace pause does not exist yet.
People in Germany think about the victims too. A survivor of the attack lives in Berlin. Her name is Dafna Gerstner. She lost her brother in the massacre. She worries about hatred against Jews in Germany. Memorial events happened in Vienna as well. Politics promise protection for Jewish life there.
