A year after the worst massacre in its history, Israel can only see the extent of its divisions. The national unity that prevailed after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 did not withstand twelve months of war. The resentment of the families of the hostages and the victims towards the government is such that even on the highly symbolic issue of commemorating this tragic day for the Jewish State, not everyone has been able to agree.
At the head of the most radical coalition in the country’s history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tasked Transport Minister Miri Regev with organizing the ceremony to commemorate the death of the 1,200 victims of the Islamist movement and the memory of the 251 people taken hostage.
This announcement, made on August 18, was seen as a provocation by many families of the victims, particularly those from the kibbutz bordering Gaza, the main victims of October 7, whose electorate leans more to the left. Promoter of the idea that the right embodies the State, willing to assimilate all attacks against her side as attacks against Israel, Miri Regev is one of the main executives of Netanyahu’s party, the Likud. He made himself known, in particular, by accusing illegal immigrants from Sudan – although few in number – of being “a cancer in the body of the nation” ; faced with the scandal, he had outbid, claiming that “I was happy to be a fascist.”.
Minister of Culture from 2015 to 2020, she opposed freedom of expression to freedom of financing. He attacked the human rights organization Breaking the Silence, an organization created by former Israeli soldiers who denounce the behavior of soldiers in the occupied territories.
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For Yotam Shimriz, a member of a collective representing communities bordering the Gaza Strip, a survivor of the Kfar Aza kibbutz and whose brother, Alon, was mistakenly killed by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip while trying to escape from his captors , the initiative to pay tribute to the victims cannot be left in the hands of the government: “It is the government that was in power on October 7 [2023]. “He did not meet the families, he did not assume his responsibilities, he did not form a commission of inquiry and I do not want him to decide how my friends will be remembered, how my brother will be remembered.”he told Israeli radio in August.
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