Australian Jews have commemorated the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks with a candlelit ceremony on the shore of Sydney Harbour.
A year after the October 7 attacks reignited the war between Israel and Hamas, Sydney’s Jewish community gathered at a candlelit memorial on the shore of Sydney Harbour to commemorate those killed and taken hostage.
But the township, known as a left-wing community involved in peace activism and humanitarian support for Palestinians, was devastated in the first hours of October 7, when fighters from the Nuseirat Battalion of Hamas burst out of Gaza on motorcycles and attacked. McCurdie asked that the names of her relatives taken hostage not be published, in case publicity were to affect their chances of release or escape. Some were released after months in captivity, the fate of others is unknown.
“Then at about 8am I started hearing gunshots. I started to feel that something very bad was happening. Then for the first time we saw people screaming and running. We had to get out of there. We started driving but after two minutes we saw the terrorists. They shot all over the car.”“My body was in such a state of panic. For the first time I could see people falling on the ground. I just froze, then sat on the ground. I started to take a video.
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