Three years since the Hamas attacks on Israel, Prime Minister Rama: The lives of young people were stolen by hatred

Prime Minister Edi Rama reacted today, 7 October, as three years are marked since the Hamas attack on Israel.

The head of the Albanian government says the Hamas attack on the Israeli state was a grave event.

Rama stresses that for the families of the victims, 7 October is a tragedy that is still fresh in memory. The Prime Minister underlines that the lives of many young people who were at a festival were stolen by the darkness of hatred.

He once again mentions the concept of Besa among Albanians, noting that our people were the ones who saved Jews from the massacres in Europe, risking themselves as well.

The head of the government says memory must never be surrendered to indifference.

Prime Minister Edi Rama’s post

Three years have passed since the horror of 7 October. But we must all understand that, for the families whose loved ones were killed by the Hamas butchers, for those whose lives were shattered and for the survivors who carry wounds no eye can see, that morning has never truly ended.

Earlier this year, I stood in Nova. There are places where silence speaks louder than words, and Nova is one of them. Young people from many nations had gathered there to dance, to laugh, to celebrate life, and their lives were stolen by the darkness of hatred and terror.

In Albania, we have a word that contains an entire moral code: Besa. A promise that cannot be broken. In Europe’s darkest hour, our grandparents kept that promise by sheltering Jews from the Holocaust, risking everything to save people marked for death.

Today, that legacy asks something of us. It asks that memory never be surrendered to indifference, that grief never be abandoned to loneliness, that antisemitism never again be allowed to hide behind silence, slogans or excuses, and that we stand by our friends even in their darkest hours. For every mother, father, child and family mourning today: May the memory of your loved ones be an eternal blessing!