Thousands of people rallied on Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square on Saturday to demand the establishment of a commission of inquiry into the failures committed during the October 7 massacre in 2023, with most of the opposition’s leaders present at the event.
The rally, organized by the October Council, an aggregation of families and friends of victims and survivors of the Hamas massacre, while Gadi Eisenot (head of Yashar), Naftali Bennet (B’Yachad), and Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) were present in the site.
Yossi Marshak and Titi Aynaw opened the rally with an address to the bereaved families, the survivors of the massacre and captivity, the families of the hostages, the fighters, and those wounded in body and soul, saying, “To all of you, we want to say: our hearts are with you. We are with you; you are not alone.”
Marshak addressed the crowd in the square and said, “Look around you. Look how many people are here. After three years of pain. After three years of struggle. After three years during which they tried to deny what happened to all of us, tried to normalize, exhaust, despair, and tell us that we should give up and get used to it, we are here to say: we will not give up on the truth.”
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