Lawmakers from both parties paid their respects to the victims of the surprise Oct. 7 attack on Israel on its first anniversary.

On the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas and allied militants stormed across the Israeli border by land, sea, and air, killing almost 1,200 Israelis on the deadliest day in the country’s history. Most of the civilians who died were killed in border villages or at the Re’im music festival. The massacres triggered the largest regional war involving Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.