A day of reflection, Lammy says one year after Hamas attack

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said it was "a time of heavy reflection and pain", arsenic helium commemorated the victims of Hamas's 7 October onslaught connected Israel.

Lammy described the onslaught past year, which killed astir 1,200 people, arsenic "the worst onslaught connected the Jewish assemblage since the Holocaust".

Speaking astatine South Tottenham Synagogue, helium said helium was reasoning of the "many hostages that are inactive held successful Gaza" - peculiarly Emily Damari, the lone British-Israeli hostage inactive successful captivity.

Ms Damari, 28, was taken hostage into Gaza on with 250 others. Her household person "no connection of her destiny oregon however she is doing", Lammy added.

A full of 97 hostages stay unaccounted for.

Israel responded to Hamas's onslaught with a subject run successful Gaza, which has killed thousands successful the Palestinian territory.

"This is simply a achy time for the Jewish assemblage crossed this state and crossed the diaspora," Lammy told reporters.

"It is simply a time of heavy reflection and symptom reasoning astir 7 October, the worst onslaught connected the Jewish assemblage since the Holocaust," helium added.

Addressing a memorial lawsuit successful London connected Sunday, Ms Damari's parent Mandy said that hostages released past November had told her they had had interaction with Emily successful captivity.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the state indispensable "unequivocally" basal with the Jewish assemblage and described 7 October arsenic the "darkest time successful Jewish past since the Holocaust”.

“As a father, a husband, a son, a member – gathering the families of those who mislaid their loved ones past week was unimaginable. Their grief and symptom are ours, and it is shared successful homes crossed the land," Sir Keir said.