Thousands march on 9th anniversary of shooting at Tel Aviv gay youth center
Some 2,000 young people marched in Tel Aviv to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the deadly shooting at the city’s Barnoar gay youth center and demand an end to discrimination against the LGBT community.
The 2009 attack was carried out by a lone gunman who killed two young people and wounded dozens more. The shooter was never caught.
Many in the LGBT community consider the shooting a hate crime, while police have speculated that it was motivated by a personal dispute rather than antipathy toward gays.
The organizers of Saturday’s march issued a statement bemoaning the lack of progress on LGBT rights made since the shooting.
“Nine years ago an armed man entered the Barnoar center and murdered boys and girls only because they were different,” the statement said. “Nine years have passed and not much has changed. In recent weeks there has been a public outcry against the inequality and discrimination of the LGBT community in Israel. We are calling to put a stop to the violence towards the LGBT community.”
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