Toronto Jewish community marking one year since Oct. 7 [Video]

Toronto’s Jewish community is coming together to mourn and is calling for allyship as it marks one year since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel that triggered a war that is still raging on.

“This is an incredibly painful day for the Jewish community in Toronto, but also the Jewish community around the world,” Sara Lefton, chief development officer at UJA Federation, told reporters at a news conference Monday morning ahead of a planned vigil in North York that is expected to draw tens of thousands of people.

It was early in the morning a year ago that Hamas militants stormed into Israel, attacking families in their homes and participants at a music festival in the desert. The attacks left some 1,200 Israeli civilians dead, while Hamas took around 250 others as hostages, including elderly people and small children.