Dean Assis, 22, has moved to Sweden from Israel just half a year ago. He has come to Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm to keep the memory of those in hostage alive.
I have a friend who is still being held hostage in Gaza. Bar Kuperstein, who worked as a security guard and nurse at the festival that Hamas attacked.
Kuperstein is alive and has been seen in video films posted by Hamas a couple of months ago.
He looks very weak and pale and as if he has been physically injured. I hope he will be released and get to come home soon, says Dean Assis.
"Talked about too little"
Lisbet Magnusson, 75, says that she does not usually participate in demonstrations, but that it was important today.
They should have been released a long time ago. Above all, one should put pressure on Hamas. Instead, many think that we should put pressure on Israel, but it is Hamas that has caused this.
The events of October 7 have almost been forgotten and have been overshadowed by the war in Gaza, says Ulf Cahn from the organization Miff, With Israel for peace, which is organizing the demonstration together with the group Bring them home Stockholm.
They are talked about too little. We Jews and Israelis live with a constant trauma since October 7, 2023. It is also difficult to express it publicly, it requires an enormous security effort for us to be able to organize something like this.
"Do not want peace"
On Tuesday evening, a demonstration will be held at Sergels torg in support of the Swedish Palestine activists who have just been flown home from Israeli prison. Ulf Cahn says that he suspects that the organizers of the demonstration want to replace today's Israel with "something else".
They do not want peace or a ceasefire with Israel, really, they want to replace Israel with something other than what it is now.
TT: How do you view the situation for the civilian population in Gaza?
It is terrible, of course it is terrible. War is terrible. But one has to think about why there is war, it depends on something that happened two years ago when thousands of people took Jews from their homes. Without that, we would not have had war at all.
