Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s military has “completely transformed reality” in the year since Hamas’ attacks. Meanwhile, fresh strikes rocked south Beirut, considered a Hezbollah stronghold.
Former US President and Republican candidate Donald Trump marked the anniversary of the October 7 attacks, the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, with a remembrance event at his Doral golf resort in Miami.
“Today we mourn more than 1,200 innocent victims of the October 7 attacks,” Trump said, saying that “the nightmare of that day” could not be forgotten.
He claimed that “the October 7 attack would never have happened if I was president.”
Trump went on to speak about the rising antisemitismin the US, saying it is “almost as shocking as October 7 itself.”
“We never thought we’d see it, certainly not in this country, and a lot of it has to do with the leadership of this country.”
Trump himself has associated himself with people known to have used antisemitic rhetoric, including Holocaust-denying white nationalist Nick Fuentes and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
Trump also said he believes election day on November 5 will be “the most important in the history of Israel.”
Earlier, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris also marked the anniversary of the attacks.
“What Hamas did that day was pure evil — it was brutal and sickening,” Harris said, adding that she was “heartbroken over the scale of death and destruction in Gaza over the past year.”
