Brandenburg's Prime Minister Woidke calls for the victims of Hamas terror to be remembered

Shortly before the anniversary of the Islamist terrorist attack on Israel, Brandenburg's Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke called for the victims to be remembered. “October 7, 2023 was a deep turning point,” said the SPD politician, according to a statement from the State Chancellery in Potsdam. “Three years later, we mourn together alongside the victims of Hamas terror. We remember the people who were murdered, tortured, injured and kidnapped."

According to the announcement, Woidke will take part in an interreligious service in the Berlin Memorial Church this Tuesday and give a speech. “We think of their relatives and everyone whose life has only had a “before” and an “after” since then,” Woidke explained. The fact that people of different faiths stand together at the memorial service is “not just a ritual”. This has a clear message: “Terror, anti-Semitism and hatred have no place in our society.”

Hamas terrorists drove from Gaza through the border fence into Israeli territory on October 7, 2023. Several thousand heavily armed terrorists followed in cars and motorcycles and attacked Israeli settlements. In the horrific massacre, around 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. The terrorist attack triggered the devastating Gaza war.