Organizers of alternate October 7 memorial say it won’t clash with state-run ceremony

Amid an ongoing dispute over the official commemoration of the October 7 Hamas attack, the organizers of an alternative ceremony say they will hold their memorial at a different time than the government-run ceremony.

The families behind the alternate ceremony, who accuse the government of attempting to use the memorial to whitewash its failures before and during the attack, say their gathering is slated to start at 7:10 p.m. in Tel Aviv, and will begin with a moment’s silence.

According to reports, the state-run ceremony is expected to air at 9:15 p.m. that evening.

Many bereaved families have lambasted Likud’s Miri Regev, the overseer of the state-run ceremony, for her approach to the first anniversary of the attack. The minister has so far refused a number of compromise proposals to solve the dispute.