Oct. 7 anniversary in Canada: Leaders, protestors speak out [Video]

The last time Tiferet Lapidot’s family heard from her was in a phone call from the Supernova music festival near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, where Hamas launched its brutal attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

“She called her mother at nine o’clock in the morning, telling her that she loves her and they’re shooting youngsters all around,” her uncle, Harel Lapidot, said Monday at a Toronto event marking the anniversary of the attack that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza.

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A year later, the family’s grief over the loss of the young woman he described as their “sunshine” is “getting worse day by day,” her uncle said. She was one of at least eight people with ties to Canada who died that day. 

“It was the most horrific thing for us as a family …