Israeli Mark October 7th Anniversary as conversations about Gaza’s peace plan continue

The Israelis have gathered across the country to mark two years of the attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, as negotiations continued in Egypt at the end of the Gaza war.

The attack saw over 1,200 people killed and 251 others returned to Gaza as hostages. It was the most dead day for the Jews after the Holocaust.

Israel reacted by launching a military offensive in Gaza, which died over 67,000, according to the health ministry in Hamas. Its numbers are seen as reliable by the UN and other international bodies.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that, along with “tremendous pain,” Israel showed “miraculous resistance”.

“Our bloodthirsty enemies hit us hard, but they didn’t break us,” Netanyahu added on Tuesday.

He also swore to “achieve all the goals of the war: the return of all the abducted, the removal of the Hamas regime and the promise that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel.”

Recalling Hamas’s attack on southern Israel two years ago, UN Secretary -General Antonio Guteres said: “The horror of this dark day will be forever sunk in the memories of all of us.”

He called on all parties to agree to the peace plan of US President Donald Trump, describing it as a “historical opportunity” to end this tragic conflict. “

The Israeli government delayed the official memorials until October 16 – after the end of the season of the Jewish high holiday holiday season – but the events were still being held across the country on Tuesday.

A memorial ceremony for the Israelis families killed in Hamas’s attack was held in Tel Aviv. Organized by the families themselves, it is broadcast on Israeli television channels.

Hours earlier throughout the country there is a minute of silence.

Meanwhile, Israeli and Hamas were negotiating teams convened in the Egyptian Red Sea resort in Sharm El-Sheikh for the second day of indirect conversations to discuss the terms of the proposal.

A senior Palestinian employee familiar with the negotiations told the BBC that an evening round of indirect negotiations began at 7:00 pm in Cairo (17:00 GMT).

The employee said that the morning session had ended without tangible results against the background of disagreements on the proposed Israeli withdrawal cards and over the guarantees Hamas wants to ensure that Israel does not resume battles after the first phase of the transaction.

He added that the conversations were “difficult and have not yet created a real breakthrough”, but noted that mediators are working hard to narrow the gaps between the two countries.

Early a Palestinian employee stated that the negotiations focused on five key questions: a constant ceasefire; the exchange of hostages still held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners and detained by Gaza; the withdrawal of the Israeli forces from Gaza; arrangements for the supply of humanitarian aid; and post -war management of the territory.

President Trump’s negotiators, Steve Vikof and Jared Kushner, were expected to leave the United States tonight and arrive in Egypt on Wednesday, a source familiar with the BBC talks.

“We have a really good chance of making a deal and it will be a lasting deal,” the president told the White House reporters on Monday.

At the Tel Aviv hostage square, early 29 -year -old Agar – whose brother survived the attack of the music festival in Nova, where 378 people were killed and dozens were taken as hostages by the Hamas artillery – he did not feel like: safety. “

“When we see everyone at home again, we can breathe again. Then we can start recovering,” she added.

Outside the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, people gathered to show their support for the hostage’s families. Israel says 48 remain in captivity in gas, 20 of which are thought to be alive.

The demonstrator Atalia Regev told the BBC: “We have to make every compromise needed for the hostages to get home. But we really want assurances that we will be safe.”

Public opinion polls now show that about 70% of Israelis want the war to end in exchange for the hostage release.

At the place of the Nova festival, they gathered to give their respect.

From there, the boom of Israeli air strikes and artillery could only be heard a few kilometers in Gaza, where witnesses said the intense Israeli bombing continued.

In the city of Gaza, air and artillery are reported in the early hours of Tues in the western neighborhoods of Tal al-Al-Hava, Rimal and Nasr and in the eastern sheikh Radvan, as well as a refugee shati camp northwest.

“When it comes in the evening, fear comes with it,” Gaza residents Emma al-Vahidi, whose 17-year-old son was killed by Israeli air strike last year, told the BBC.

“Me and my three children are afraid of the air strikes. We sleep together all night, holding, especially my youngest child, which puts me on my head all night.”

“Every second we look at the news to see what happened. And I fear that this cessation of fire will not be completed and that the war will return to us.”

Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza said she had received the bodies of six in the afternoon, including three killed in an Israeli blow in the southern Al-Sabra neighborhood.

Nasser Hospital in the southern town of Han Enis said two more dead people had been brought there. One of them was killed by the Israeli forces while seeking help south, the medics said.

UNICEF spokesman James Elder described how mothers and wounded children “lined with Nasar’s corridor floors” and that premature babies had to share a bed or a source of oxygen.

“There were three babies in one of the pediatric rooms and three mothers on one bed, one source of oxygen, and the mothers will rotate oxygen for 20 minutes for each child,” he told a Reuters agency. “This is the level of despair that mothers have already reached.”

The Gaza Health Ministry said that 25 of the 38 hospitals on the territory are already out of service and that the other 13 work only partially.

In the meantime, the Israeli military said a rocket was fired from North Gaza in Israel on Tuesday morning, triggering sirens in the Dallest Haasara. The projectile fell into the area and that no injuries or damage were being reported, he added.

International journalists were banned from Israel from entering the Gaza Strip, regardless of the beginning of the war, making it difficult for claims from both sides.