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Israeli Singer Omer Adam Performs Song Dedicated to Oct. 7 Victims During Israel’s Yom Hazikaron Ceremony
Omer Adam performing “Human Tissue.” Photo: Screenshot
Israeli pop singer Omer Adam performed a song on Monday during Israel’s torch lighting ceremony for Yom Hazikaron that commemorated the victims murdered by Hamas during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel.
The torch lighting ceremony on Monday night concluded Yom Hazikaron in Israel and marked the start of Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut) celebrations. This year, instead of taking place in front of a live audience, the torch lighting ceremony was filmed and recorded in advance, and celebrations were toned down out of respect for those affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre.
Twelve torches are traditionally lit in memory of fallen soldiers and the victims of terror attacks. This year, families of those slaughtered in the Oct. 7 attacks were given the honor of lighting some of the torches. They were lit in cities around Israel impacted by the attack including near Re’im, where the Supernova music festival was held. The final torch was left unlit to symbolize the Israeli hostages still being held captive in Gaza.
Hamas terrorists murdered 364 civilians at the Supernova festival and roughly 1,200 in total across southern Israel during the early hours of Oct. 7 last year. A total of 252 people were kidnapped by Hamas that day and taken to the Gaza Strip and 128 remain in the Palestinian enclave, according to Israeli tallies.
On the site of the Supernova festival, Adam performed the song “Human Tissue,” originally written by Moti Hamer and Chava Alberstein. Families of the those murdered on Oct. 7 backed him up with vocals while they held pictures of their loved ones.
“When I’ll die, something from me will die within you. When you’ll die, something from you within me will die along with you,” Adam sang in the ballad. “Because all of us, yes, all of us … All of us are just a living human tissue. And if one of us fades away, something from us dies along. And something else, stays within him.”
Adam wrote in an Instagram post that through the heartbreaking song he hopes to send strength to all those who lost loved ones in the Oct. 7 attacks. He said he also prays for the speedy return of the hostages who remain held in the Gaza Strip.
He further sings in “Human Tissue”: “If we only knew, how to calm the hatred, if only we knew how. If we only knew how to silence our rage to say we are sorry, though we already got offended. If we only knew how to begin fresh from the start.”
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.