Prime Minister Netanyahu in his address to Congress compared the massacre of October 7 to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and September 11, 2001 as "a day that will live in infamy."
"It was the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah," he said. "Thousands of Israelis were celebrating at an outdoor music festival. Then suddenly, at 6:29 am, as children were still sleeping soundly in their beds in the towns and kibbutzim next to Gaza, suddenly, heaven turned into hell."