Benjamin Netanyahu and his camp stand out from the ceremonies of this second anniversary of October 7. It will be necessary to wait until October 16 to attend the commemoration of the State in the Israeli national cemetery of Mont Herzl in the presence of the country’s leaders.
As soon as he has the opportunity, on the international scene and the United Nations last week, the Israeli prime minister summons the memory of this mortal day when Hamas Commondos killed 1,219 people and made 251 hostages. The Head of Government skip this year.
A forced calendar
The date falls this year at a particular moment for the country since the Jews celebrated this week on Monday of Soukkot, this week that marks the beginning of autumn and celebrates the exodus of Egypt.
“Today, a little as a Shabbat excursion. Then, throughout the week, these vacations, vacations for children and sometimes the unemployed days for some. People who do not work, it is difficult to organize events,” said BFMTV Frédéric Schillo Historienne, specialist in Israel and International Relations.
On March 17, 2024, the Prime Minister’s Cabinet announced his decision to establish a national memory day for the victims of October 7 and the war against Hamas. The Israeli executive decided on October 16 to avoid coinciding the most fatal day in Israel’s history with Soukkot.
The failure of the Ofakim event
Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet intended to organize large commemorations for the first anniversary of October 7.
“In addition to this National Duel Day that will be held every year, a national ceremony will be organized, only for the first birthday, of October 7, the civil date of the terrorist terrorist attacks, which remained recorded in the memory of the Israelis and throughout the world,” the cabinet justified.
But as this anniversary approaches, the families of the hostages and support associations of the association had expressed their disagreement when they saw Benjamin Netanyahu and his minister Miri Regev, organizing this event while one hundred Israelis were still in the hands of Hamas and that the negotiations for their liberation seemed dead.
The event that was going to take place in the city of Ofakim, where the attacks were perpetrated by Hamas, was boycotted by the hostage families of the official ceremonies.
The families of the otages and the missing families, an association also known as “take them home now” (take them home) had publicly rejected the government’s invitation to this event by denouncing “Israeli citizens abandoned during the largest catastrophe in their history” and “The resounding failure to bring hostages.”
The unofficial ceremony supplanted the official
Many artists requested by the organizers of this national ceremony have finally retired from the project and hostage families have denied that the photos of their loved ones, their names or their life stories be used.
In addition to this official ceremony, many events were organized by civil society around this symbolic date. An unofficial commemoration ceremony was organized in Tel Aviv by families in Hayarkon Park with artists and speeches of hostage relatives.
The participants were also collected in Kibbutz Réim, place of the Nova Music Festival, where at least 370 people had been killed and in a nearby Kibbutz, in Berri.
“It is the alternative ceremony of the families of hostages and the missing, which has finally complete Authority, live authorship on television. Under your stones, Jerusalem: When archeology makes history Posted by PLON EDITIONS this year.
A date that civil society has appropriated
Families of the victims met on Tuesday at the scene of the massacre of the Nova Festival, near the Gaza Strip. There have been important demonstrations in recent days in the place where Tel Aviv accessories are organized, and events are organized in the main Israeli cities by groups, associations and representatives of civil society.
“Tonight, there is a ceremony for the families of the hostages and the disappeared that will be broadcast on three television channels at the same time. It is civil society that really, since October 7, has taken over and has bothered all the failures of the State. The organizers have created almost 300 demonstrations in all the Israel to see the ceremony,” retains the historian installed in Jerusalem.
Contracting on October 16 too
Even covering on October 7 so as not to suffer the anger of Israeli Street, Benjamin Netanyahu and their supporters are not immune to a new failure on October 16 when he participated in the states ceremonies in the cemetery of Mont Herzl.
Civil society will also organize other ceremonies on October 16. “All this reflects a total government denial. It was completely overwhelmed by its base (…) Most Israelis are favorable to a war stop. Tsahal said in October 2024 that he has achieved his field field. Hamas eradication of Hamas the goal,” says Frédérique Schillo;
Worldwide, official ceremonies, demonstrations and events such as France, Germany, United States, the United Kingdom or Australia take place this October 7.
Source: BFM TV
