As Israelis mourn October 7, Hamas chose to launch its heaviest missile barrage on Israel in months, which Israel’s military says it was mostly able to thwart through its missile defenses.
The terror group even timed its rockets to coincide precisely with the start of memorial events across the country. Regular rocket attacks had previously largely ceased amid the ongoing ground war in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, but for now, they’ve resumed.
“Starting at 6:29 a.m., ceremonies, rallies and ad hoc memorials held across Israel marked the moment a year ago that Gazan terror groups began lobbing massive volleys of rockets, providing air cover for thousands of terrorists speeding across the suddenly pregnable border by land, air and sea and kicking off the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust,” Israeli media describes.
Via CNN
“Underlining how much has changed since then, Hamas on Monday morning only managed to fire four rockets to mark the moment at 6:30 a.m.” But many more reportedly followed. Three of those initial rockets were reportedly intercepted while a fourth fell in an open area. The IDF wrote on social media: “Sirens sounding in Tel Aviv and central Israel exactly a year after the October 7 massacre.”
Family members of hostages also led remembrance events. Some 100 Israelis are still being held somewhere in Gaza, with many of the captives feared dead after a full year of brutal war, and Hamas has turned to executing some in instances where IDF soldiers get too close.
About 1,200 people were killed in the brutal Oct.7 attack which involved thousands of well-armed Hamas militants invading both the Nova music festival and several kibbutzim near the border.
Concert-goers were randomly shot or dragged away into captivity. Military border outposts were also overrun, and in some cases, Israeli troops were dragged
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