Marking a year since 7 October attacks – in pictures

Candlelight vigils and memorial services in Israel and around the world mark the anniversary of the 7 October attacks by Hamas

Main image: Families of victims killed at the Nova music festival attend a gathering in memory of their relatives, at a memorial site. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

  • An empty shabbat table with pictures of hostages who are still missing is displayed on the anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war near the US Capitol building in Washington
    An empty shabbat table with pictures of hostages who are still missing

  • Family members of Kraisorn Tumyoma, a Thai worker who was killed during the Hamas attack on Israel, break into tears during a commemoration ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand.
    People crying at a ceremony

  • People observe a moment of silence during a memorial ceremony in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv
    People observe a moment of silence

  • Members of the Beeri kibbutz community hold a memorial service, close to the border with the Gaza Strip. According to Israeli police, 101 kibbutz Beeri members were killed and 32 taken as hostages into the Gaza Strip
    People hold pictures of loved ones

  • Members of the Jewish community stand with the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, at South Tottenham United Synagogue in London
    Lammy holds a picture of a woman taken hostage on 7 October. The text on the picture reads: ‘Bring her home now.’

  • Hostage and bereaved families gather outside the private residence of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem at 6.29am, the hour that Hamas militants attacked Israelis across the border from Gaza
    People holding yellow flags and photographs stand in the street

  • Nice’s mayor Christian Estrosi (front) unveils the work Cela veut dire ‘nous vivrons!’, by the artist Joann Sfar, during a ceremony in the French town commemorating the victims of the 7 October attacks
    Estrosi removes a white cloth from a metal sculpture

  • A woman mourns in in Tel Aviv near photos of people killed or kidnapped during the 7 October Hamas attack
    A woman mourns near photos laid around the outside of a circular fountain

  • A person lights candles at a memorial for victims at the Israeli embassy in Beijing
    A person kneels to light candles arranged to show the numbers 7.10

  • A commemorative banner with the inscription 7 October 2023 hangs on the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, as flags fly at half-mast
    Flags flying on the Reichstag building

  • Yuval Dancyg, the son of the late Polish-born Israeli historian Alex Dancyg, listens as the chief rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich, says a prayer for Dancyg at the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, Poland. Alex Dancyg was abducted from his home in the Nir Oz kibbutz by Hamas militants and died in captivity in Gaza in 2024
    Yuval Dancyg listens as Michael Schudrich says a prayer

  • People attend a commemorative ceremony in Madrid, Spain
    A woman plays a violin in the aisle of a hall between seated people

  • Two people embrace as relatives and supporters of Israelis killed in attack attend a ceremony at the Nova memorial near Reim kibbutz in southern Israel
    Two people embrace next to posters of victims

  • A woman and her child visit a bomb shelter in which people were killed near the Mefalsim kibbutz in southern Israel
    A woman and her child inside a room with messages written on the walls

  • People holding hands at a memorial event in Tel Aviv
    Aerial view of people forming a circle around a large fountain

  • A boy and his mother light memorial candles inside a bomb shelter near the Mefalsim kibbutz in southern Israel
    A boy and his mother light tea candles on the floor of a concrete room

  • Members of the South African Jewish community attend a temporary exhibition at Great Park Forest, Johannesburg
    A woman looks a photographs laid out in a display

  • The French minister for Europe and foreign affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, visits the Nova festival memorial near the Reim kibbutz in southern Israel
    Barrot talks to people at the the Nova festival memorial

  • Members of the Australian Jewish community listen to speeches during a memorial service in Sydney
    People sitting on chairs outside listen to speeches

  • Protesters from the Christian grassroots movement Never Again is Now gather during a rally against antisemitism at Parliament House in Canberra
    A group of people with a large Israel flag hold their arms up

  • People look at pictures of 101 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza projected on the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem
    Two people hold each other as they look at pictures of Israeli hostages projected on outside walls

  • A man lights a candle as relatives and supporters of Israelis killed in the attack attend a ceremony at the Nova memorial near the Reim kibbutz in southern Israel
    A man lights a candle

  • The New York Jewish community gathers outside Lincoln Center for a memorial ceremony
    People holding posters and placards - one of which says: ‘A deal now!’
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