It is unfathomable to me that after the chants of “Never Again” in the wake of the Nazi genocide, after the African and Balkan genocides of the 1990s, after the recent decimations of Iraq, Syria, Yemen,

Families of those killed at the Nova music festival were joined by Israeli president Isaac Herzog at the site where almost 400 revellers were gunned down. Israelis were holding vigils and sombre ceremonies on Monday to mark a year since the October 7 Hamas attack which sparked the war in Gaza.