Las Vegas Strip Pro-Israel Rally Attracts Hundreds After Deadly Massacre

Posted on: October 9, 2023, 07:37h. 

Last updated on: October 9, 2023, 08:38h.

Several hundred people assembled in front of The Venetian on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday to show their support for Israel.

Many waved Israeli flags or sung out in support of the Jewish state at the “Stand Up Against Terror. Stand With Israel” rally.

On their minds were how Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Saturday. They brutally killed over 800 victims, wounded more than 2,000, mostly civilians, on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah.

A hundred or more victims were abducted, and are believed to be held hostage now in tunnels in Gaza.

Israelis at Rally

Among those who showed up at the rally on the Strip was Anna-Lee Brody. She was born in Israel and served in its military. For 20 years, she has been residing in Las Vegas.

“This makes me feel like at least I can advocate, stand for my country,” Brody told the Las Vegas Review-Journal about why she attended. “It also makes me feel like I have another shoulder, other Israelis, to balance off on and to talk to.”

Her Israeli cousin hid for 25 hours to prevent being kidnapped by the terrorists on Saturday. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eventually rescued him.

If we don’t start standing up as a world and saying we need to put a stop to anti-Semitism, we need to put a stop to the destruction of the Jewish people, it will never stop,” Brody said.

Another person at the rally was Meital Barda. She too was born in Israel and has resided in the U.S. for 12 years.

“This is just to show solidarity with my country,” Barda told the Review-Journal.

“I’m so far away from my family and my friends who are living this nightmare right now.”

Rivka Lagstein took her daughter, Nicole, to the rally, as well.

It feels like a second Holocaust,” Rivka Lagstein, who also was born in Israel, told Las Vegas TV station KLAS. “Israel has never had anything like this before. I feel helpless that I cannot do more but to rally.”

Noa Peri-Jensch added to KLAS that in Israel, “The entire country is in shock, they are mourning.”

“My heart is shattered into pieces, and I am broken,” UNLV student Gaia Steinberg further told KLAS. “When I tell friends of mine who don’t have a direct connection to it, they don’t understand.”

Among those who died in Israel were 260 concert goers.

U2 Concert Dedicated to Victims

The Jewish Chronicle reported that on Sunday night, U2’s Bono remembered the concertgoers during his own Las Vegas show:

We sing for our brothers and sisters, who they themselves were singing at the Supernova Sukkot festival in Israel. We sing for those. Our people. Our kind of people. Music people, playful, experimental people. Our kind of people. We sing for them.”

During the Israeli concert, heavily armed terrorists flew onto concert grounds using paragliders or drove there in vans.

Numerous victims were either gunned down or reportedly had their legs shot off by the terrorists so they couldn’t run away. Some were kidnapped. Others perished after terrorists tossed grenades. There were reports the terrorists raped some of the victims.

The concert was called the Universo Paralello Festival. About 70 percent of the concert goers were from Israel. The others were from the U.S., Europe, Australia, and elsewhere, according to Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli news outlet.

Among them was Kim Danti, 22. She is an Irish-Israeli.

Danti now is missing. She called her family when the shooting started. That’s the last time they heard from her.

Her mother, Jennifer Danti, spoke to ABC News over the weekend.

“They just shot everywhere. They just shot them, slaughtered them like dogs,” Jennifer Danti said. “I want the world to condemn this behavior.”

She can’t sleep. Her thoughts are completely on her daughter.

All I can think about is where she is. If she is suffering. If she is still alive. I just want her back.”

Meanwhile, Israeli’s military attacked Gaza and more strategic actions are likely. It led to deaths in Gaza.

Remembering Vegas Shooting

Saturday’s mass shooting at the Israeli concert and murders elsewhere in the country comes six years after a mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip. Shooter Stephen Paddock injured 546 concertgoers and the security guard, Jesus Campos, who confronted the shooter shortly before the massacre.

Initially, 58 died from the shooting spree. Two additional victims later died from their wounds. An additional unnamed victim who passed away recently was added to the list of 60.

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