Israeli Embassy in Mexico remembers victims of ‘Hamas’ attacks – Millennium Group

One year after the attack carried out by the terrorist organization Hamas, the The Israeli Embassy in Mexico held a solemn ceremony in memory and honor of the murdered people and of those that remain kidnapped in the Gaza Strip.

During the ceremony led by the andIsraeli ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz Neiger, a candle was lit for each of the wounded in the October 2023 attacks.

There, the diplomatic representative noted that “it has been one year since the earth shook, since the worst of brutality and human hatred destroyed our sense of security and changed our world forever.”

“A year since our women, our children, our elderly, were persecuted in their beds, burned, beheaded and shot. One year since women and men suffered brutal sexual violence. A year since hundreds of innocent people were brutally dragged into captivity, alive and dead,” said the Israeli representative in Mexico.

The massacre that occurred a year ago left 1,200 people of all ages murdered, around 2,700 seriously injured and more than 250 kidnapped who were taken to the tunnels of Hamas.

The ambassador recalled that among the victims of the October 7 attack there are two Mexicans: Orión Hernández, a young lover of music and peace, who was kidnapped from Nova festival and murdered by Hamas; and Ilana Gritzewsky, kidnapped from her home at Kibbutz Nir Oz, and released after 55 days,” who to this day waits for her partner, Matan Zangauker, to return home.

During the anniversary of the attacks, Ilana Gritzewsky recorded a message that was projected, where she acknowledged that the event perpetrated by Hamas “She changed her life when she was kidnapped with her boyfriend Matan” and issued a call not to forget.

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“This attack was not only against Israel, it was against humanity, they took away our peace, our sense of security, our loved ones. Today I ask you not to forget, we cannot let the kidnapped people be forgotten, they are still waiting to be rescued, waiting to return home. I ask you not to remain silent, it is not only Israel’s struggle, it is the struggle of all of humanity,” said the affected woman.

Ilana’s brother, Jaim Gritzewsky, participated in the event, who claimed to represent not only to his family, “but also to the other 250 families of kidnapped people of more than 25 nationalities who are going through or went through the same thing.”

Through a statement, the embassy indicated that the anniversary of attack of Hamas:

“It is also a reminder of a war that Israel did not wantbut that any democratic country would have had with the objective of defending its population from barbarism and incessant violence. Not to mention that the enemy is the terrorist forces and not the Palestinian population in Gaza nor the civilians in Lebanon“With them, what has always been desired is peace.”

He considered that behind Hamas’ terrorism, “is Iran, which directly attacked Israel in April, and once again on Tuesday, October 1, with 190 ballistic missiles.” The embassy points out that the Middle Eastern nation is behind the constant attacks of Hezbollah towards the north of Israel, of the Houthis in Yemen, of ships in the Red Sea, and of militias Shiites in Syria and Iraq.”

He further maintained that the attacks “consist of a threat to the entire world and everything possible must be done to prevent it from continuing to risk global stability.”

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