Vigils and rallies to mark anniversary of Hamas attack

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Vigils and rallies to mark anniversary of ****** *******

Vigils and solemn ceremonies will be held across Australia marking one year since deadly ****** attacks in ******* as tensions across the nation remain high.

The attacks 12 months ago in which ****** ******* more than 1200 people and took 250 hostages, according to the ******** government, inflamed conflict in the Middle East with ********* spreading from Gaza and into Lebanon.

Candlelight vigils will be held across many *********** cities on Monday to mark the October 7, 2023, attacks after members of the ******* community joined ******** Ambassador Amir Maimon at a commemoration in Sydney on Sunday evening.

Mr Maimon said October 7 was the beginning of a “painful chapter” for *******.

“We did not ask for this war,” he told those gathered at Sunday’s vigil overlooking Sydney Harbour.

“We did not start it.

“We did not want it, but we are determined to win it.”

Speakers at the event included former senator Nova Peris and Michal Ohana, who survived the ****** ******* on the Nova Music Festival in *******.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who will attend an event in Melbourne, said October 7 carried a terrible pain.

“Innocent lives taken at a music festival,” Mr Albanese said.

“Women, men and children ******* in their homes.

“Brutality that was inflicted with cold calculation.

“Today we also think of the hostages whose lives remain suspended in the ***** and isolation of captivity.

“For their loved ones, this past year must have felt like an eternity.”

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, NSW Premier Chris Minns and Health Minister Mark Butler will attend a community vigil in Sydney.

Pro-************ rallies will also take place on the anniversary.

As many as 2000 people are expected at a resilience rally at Lakemba Mosque in Sydney’s south which has not been authorised by NSW police.

It follows pro-Palestine rallies across Australia on Sunday.

The ****** attacks led to a ******** campaign and ground invasion of Gaza, which in the past year has ******* more than 42,000 people and displaced 1.9 million, according to the local health ministry.

*******’s military campaign has now spread to Lebanon as it hunts down senior figures in Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group backed by Iran and designated a ********** organisation by Australia.

*********** citizens who have been evacuated from Lebanon to Cyprus on flights are set to begin the last stage of their journey home on Monday.

Ahead of the events commemorating the October 7 anniversary, the prime minister reiterated calls for social cohesion.

“We unequivocally condemn all prejudice and hatred – there is no place in Australia for discrimination against people of any ******,” Mr Albanese said.

“As we mourn and reflect, we also re-affirm a fundamental principle of our shared humanity: every innocent life matters.

“We recognise the distress the conflict has caused here in Australia.”

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