Central California marks one year since Hamas attack in Israel

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Monday marks 1 twelvemonth since the Islamic violent radical Hamas killed 12 100 Israelis and took astir 250 radical hostage.

The symptom of radical suffering is felt present successful the Central Valley by Rabbi Rick Winer.

"People are precise upset; this is ongoing, and we would emotion for it to halt immediately. And it's a truly a feeling of vulnerability, you know, this is the worst onslaught that the Jewish assemblage worldwide has faced since the Holocaust," said Rabbi Rick.

Biane Shahim, who is portion of the Palestinian Liberation Group, said feelings person been mixed since October 7th, 2023.

"Feeling similar you person to beryllium that you're human, that these radical merit to beryllium alive, that these radical merit to unrecorded successful justness and dignity, arsenic Americans were raised to believe," said Shahim.

Since the struggle began, pro-Palestinian demonstrations swept crossed the state astatine universities, including U-C Merced and Fresno State.

Shahim said the enactment was overwhelming, adjacent for radical surviving successful the conflict.

"It felt similar determination was immoderate benignant of question and alteration that was truly happening," said Shahim.

She said friends who attended UCLA shared footage of Pro-Israeli radical attacking Pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

It's unit that Rabbi Rick said is unacceptable.

"There's nary crushed oregon excuse for violence. People perfectly person a close to talk retired and talk their minds," said Rabbi Rick.

As the struggle betwixt the Israeli subject and Hamas continues, some Rabbi Winer and Shahim accidental radical privation this warfare to stop.

"The immense bulk of radical I cognize of, some radical present successful the States and successful Israel, privation an extremity to this," said the Rabbi. "At the extremity of the day, we should each retrieve that we're each humans. We each privation the aforesaid things successful life. We each privation dignity, we each privation justice, we each privation to beryllium capable to unrecorded and thrive," said Shahim.

Temple Beth Israel showed a documentary earlier this evening connected the unit by Hamas. For information purposes, Rabbi Winer says they don't privation to publicize immoderate different events happening astatine the temple.

The Palestinian Liberation Group volition beryllium gathering extracurricular the Federal Court House Monday nighttime astatine six p.m. to retrieve the lives mislaid successful this war.