From the Liveblog of
Monday, October 7, 2024
WATCH: Families’ ceremony commemorating October 7 attack begins
The commemoration ceremony organized by families of the victims of the October 7 attack begins at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. It will be broadcast on Israeli television stations and dozens of foreign broadcast networks.
It is the first of two ceremonies this evening, with the official state ceremony to be held at 9:15 p.m. The latter, organized by Transportation Minister Miri Regev, has been surrounded by controversy, with critics of the government saying it should not be overseeing a ceremony marking its failures a year ago.
Some 40,000 people had planned to attend the Yarkon Park event, but it will now be held with a limited crowd due to the IDF Home Front Command only allowing gatherings of up to 2,000 people in Tel Aviv amid the ongoing threat of rocket attacks.
