Vigils to mark one year since start of Israel-Hamas war

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- October 7th marks 1 twelvemonth since the Hamas panic onslaught wherever implicit 250 hostages were kidnapped.

The onslaught killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.

Over the past year, Palestinian Health Officials person reported much than 41-thousand deaths. War has raged betwixt Hamas and Israel for the past twelvemonth with Israel facing disapproval for its wartime conduct. Vigils person been held astir the satellite for the past respective days to retrieve those impacted by the ongoing war.

In downtown Fresno candles, signs, and Palestinian flags were carried into a vigil to retrieve the lives mislaid successful the twelvemonth since the commencement of the Israel-Hamas war.

Standing successful a ellipse radical took turns to stock thoughts, feelings, and poetry.

"We heard the words corporate grief going astir contiguous and I deliberation its truly important to beryllium capable to dependable your opinions and speech astir your sadness collectively arsenic a group," said Biane Shahim, Palestinian Liberation Group.

Tealight candles surrounded a database of tens of thousands of names of those mislaid successful Gaza passim the war.

"I deliberation it's important to person people's names due to the fact that adjacent though we can't person their photos and their stories astatine slightest having their names truthful we tin admit them 1 by 1 is truly important," said Shahim.

In Northwest Fresno, successful the midst of The Jewish High Holy Days, Rabbi Rick Winer led an further work marking 1 twelvemonth since the Hamas panic attack. and the kidnapping of 250 hostages.

"Today is an hold of the year," said Winer. "We've been dealing with this surely since October 7th and successful immoderate cases earlier of conscionable the strength of to immoderate grade of feeling unsocial successful the satellite the Jewish assemblage has been targeted everyplace passim the world."

In the backmost country of the room, dozens of photos with "kidnapped" written crossed the apical filled the wall.

"These are not nameless, faceless people," said Winer. "These are existent radical nether horrific circumstances. And determination are radical successful Gaza, determination are radical successful the West Bank determination are radical successful Lebanon conscionable arsenic the galore radical successful Israel who are victims of the extremism."

At both, feelings of heartbreak and sadness arsenic the warfare rages on, hostages are kept from their loved ones, and much lives are lost.

But inactive anticipation that 1 time bid tin and volition beryllium found, but lone erstwhile weapons are laid down.

"I wanna spot honestly peace," said Shahim. "Nothing tin hap unless bombs are stopped being dropped. You can't truly speech oregon person a condusive speech if there's inactive decease and violence. I deliberation the archetypal happening we person to bash is person a ceasefire and past we tin speech and sermon further on."

"First we would emotion to spot the hostages reunited with their loved ones and we would emotion to spot everyone acceptable down their weapons and crook to a productive, peaceful coexistence," said Winer.

Both Rabbi Rick and Shahim encouraged radical to scope retired to their elected officials and ballot to make alteration crossed the world.

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