October 7 survivors, hostage families, grieving parents extinguish torches for Independence Day

Eyal Eshel, whose daughter Roni was murdered at a military base on October 7, extinguishes a torch at an alternative Independence Day ceremony attended by over 1,000 in Binyamina.

“I hereby extinguish the torch of the sin of conceit,” says Eshel.

The gesture is part of an initiative co-organized by Noam Dan, whose cousin Ofer Kalderon is presumed to be held in Gaza.

The ceremony, led by journalists Jackey Levi and Lucy Aharish, features the ceremonial extinguishing of torches by multiple speakers who accuse the government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the army’s top echelon for allowing Hamas terrorist to murder some 1,200 people and abduct another 252 on October 7.

Michal Lahav, a resident of Kibbutz Gadot who has been evacuated from her home for the past seven months, accuses the government of “abandoning the north” to Hezbollah’s rockets before bringing down a large douter, an implement to snuff out flame, on one of the burning torches.

Ravid Menashe, a leader of the Building an Alternative Feminist and anti-government group, extinguishes a torch for “the abandonment of the personal safety of women.”

She accuses the government of “appropriating the suffering of women to justify the war” on Hamas while “sabotaging deals to retrieve the female hostages undergoing abuse daily.”

Lior and Amos Alon, survivors of the massacre in Be’eri, extinguish what they call “the torch of indifference,” as Lior says the gesture is “make sure that those whom lead Israel now will no longer lead it going forward.”

עוד מסימני הממשלה האנטי-ציונית של בנגביר-נתניהו:

משטרת ישראל אסרה להכניס דגלי ישראל לטקס כיבוי המשואות שמתקיים כעת באמפי שוני, בהובלת משפחות חטופים (אלטרנטיבה הולמת לטקס המוקלט של מירי רגב).

שימו לב לקהל בתמונה: אין אפילו דגל ישראל אחד. ???????? דרשו מכולם להפקיד אותם בכניסה.

למי יש… pic.twitter.com/2zyq1favqd

— Nava Rozolyo נאווה רוזוליו (@rozolyo) May 13, 2024