Jewish Australians have remembered Israeli hostages held in Gaza and the 1,200 people who lost their lives in the 7 October Hamas terror attack, while condemning a “national blindness” that has given rise to “unprecedented” levels of hatred in Australia.
Two years on from the day that triggered the ongoing Israel-Gaza war, Muslims and the Palestinian diaspora in Australia have also marked the moment as the start of a bombardment that has killed about 67,000 Palestinians in Gaza.