Lammy: October 7 anniversary is ‘day of reflection and pain’
David Lammy said the anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel was a moment of “deep reflection and pain”, as commemorations were held across the UK to mark the outbreak of the latest Middle East conflict. Visiting the South Tottenham synagogue in his own parliamentary constituency on Monday, the Foreign Secretary paid tribute to the Jewish community across the country. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well today I'm here with the Jewish community at the synagogue here in South Tottenham.
00:15It is a day of deep reflection and pain, thinking about October the 7th, the worst attack on
00:26the Jewish community since the Holocaust, and of course thinking about the many hostages
00:34that are still held in Gaza and their loved ones in the pain, and particularly we think
00:42of Emily Damari, the British hostage, and her family have no word of her fate or how
00:52she is doing. So this is a painful day for the Jewish community across this country and
00:59across the diaspora.
01:00We'll talk about it inside.
01:01Let's not go there.
01:02It's very special for me to mark this very sombre, sad and difficult day here in the
01:25community that I serve and that I've known for all of my life. October the 7th was a
01:33shocking, shocking moment etched into the memories of all of us, I suspect, for the
01:43rest of our lives.