Israel will mark on Thursday 1,000 days since the October 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel, with somber memorials, marches and protests planned across the country.

The October Council, a group of bereaved families, October 7 survivors and some former hostages, has organized a full day of events to mark the occasion throughout the day.

The organization — which is sharply critical of the current government’s failure to prevent the Hamas invasion and its refusal to convene a state commission of inquiry — is planning on opening the day’s events at 6:29 a.m., the exact time that the attack began 1,000 days earlier, with a series of protests.

The October Council is also organizing a convoy of vehicles that will tour the worst hit sites of the attack, beginning at the site of the Nova festival near Kibbutz Re’im, continuing through Nir Oz, Kissufim, Be’eri, Nahal Oz, Kfar Aza and other locations, before ending at a memorial site next to Sderot.

At 10 a.m., the organization is calling for a nationwide moment of silence to remember the October 7 massacre. Ten a.m. is also the time that a siren rings out nationwide on Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day each year. At 11, the organization will open an exhibit in Tel Aviv presenting 1,000 personal items that belonged to those killed or kidnapped that day.

At 5 p.m. a protest will be held outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, and at 8 p.m. the main rally will be held at the former Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. A number of other events will be held throughout the day at locations nationwide.

Freed hostage Rom Braslavski, who was kidnapped from the Nova festival and held in........

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