On the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, Israel observed a day of remembrance while reaffirming its commitment to securing the return of hostages. The country has significantly weakened Hamas and Hezbollah since last year's assault, but the fate of approximately 100 remaining hostages remains a pressing concern.
Israel paused Monday to observe the anniversary of the terror attack of October 7, 2023, when Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists brutally murdered 1200 Israel is and abducted over 250 hostages, often torturing and raping their victims.
At the same time, Israel is far stronger than it was a year before. Hamas managed to fire a handful of rockets toward central Israel on Monday, a year after it launched thousands. It has lost tens of thousands of its fighters; most of its leaders are dead; its 24 battalions are in disarray; and it can no longer threaten the communities surrounding Gaza.
In the West Bank, known to Israelis as Judea and Samaria, Israel has quietly dismantled the nascent terrorist forces that Iran had begun to build there, through Hamas and other groups. And while Israel recently suffered a successful drone attack by Shiite militias in Iraq, the Iraqis are said to fear Israel’s response, seeing the consequences elsewhere.
The same is not true of the West, where mobs celebrated the October 7 attack in the streets of major cities and turned elite universities into cesspools of antisemitism.
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