Israel, one year after Oct. 7
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🗓️ 7 October 2024
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Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip awoke on Monday, the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks, in the same way they were roused on Oct. 7, 2023: to the sound of air-raid sirens.
At 6:32 a.m. – almost to the minute of the surprise assaults last year – militants in Gaza launched four rockets toward those same towns and kibbutzim, sending Israelis into shelters and highlighting how the battle continues to rage 12 months after that fateful morning.
Israeli forces immediately struck targets inside Gaza, where more than 41,000 people have been killed since the start of the war, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Despite the fighting, Israelis came together to remember those who were lost, those who are still being held captive and those who remain unable to return to their homes. About 1,200 Israeli citizens, visitors, guest workers and soldiers were killed in the Oct. 7 attacks. At least 250 were taken hostage. More than 160,000 fled to safety from towns around Gaza and along the border with Lebanon. Few have come home.
Today on “Post Reports,” Martine Powers speaks with Steve Hendrix in Jerusalem about the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, and about the internal divisions within Israel as its war with Hamas in Gaza expands to include Lebanon, Yemen and Iran.
Today’s show was produced by Peter Bresnan, with help from Emma Talkoff and Rennie Svirnvoskiy. It was edited by Monica Campbell and Reena Flores and mixed by Sean Carter. Thanks to Jesse Mesner-Hage, Heidi Levine, Joe Snell and Alisa Shodiyev Kaff.
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| 0:00.0 | Today at 6 29 AM in Israel, air raid sirens marked one year since the October 7th attacks by Hamas. Outside of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Jerusalem, the sirens played while demonstrators |
| 0:20.3 | held signs of loved ones, still being held hostage in Gaza. |
| 0:24.3 | Almost at the same time, Israelis along the Gaza Strip also heard sirens, |
| 0:32.4 | but they were not part of a protest. |
| 0:34.8 | They were real, as Hamas launched rockets toward Israel, which Israeli forces said they |
| 0:39.2 | mostly intercepted. |
| 0:41.4 | It was a split-screen moment capturing life in Israel right now. |
| 0:45.0 | Still under threat, even as people in the country remember the attacks that upended their lives. |
| 0:51.0 | That's the case for people like Shimon Buskila. He lost his son on October 7th during |
| 0:56.4 | one of Hamas's attacks at the music festival near the Gaza border. |
| 1:00.6 | We don't know it seems to be like yesterday was the last day we saw him. |
| 1:05.0 | For us yesterday was the last day of the old life |
| 1:11.0 | before we start one year in the new life. It was the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history. |
| 1:16.0 | It was the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history. |
| 1:20.0 | 1,200 people were killed and dozens of hostages are still being held by Hamas. |
| 1:26.0 | In Gaza, the war there has left more than 41,000 people dead, according to the Gaza |
| 1:30.9 | health ministry. |
| 1:32.4 | Now Israel is at war not just against Hamas, but multiple enemies. |
| 1:37.9 | When Hamas attacked the communities along the Gaza border. |
| 1:42.9 | Israel retaliated with what has proven to be a ferocious year-long war in Gaza, |
| 1:49.4 | now expanded into Lebanon. It's fighting against Tuthi rebels in Yemen and has even |
| 1:56.4 | exchanged missiles with Iran. Steve Hendricks is the Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the post. |
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