Live updates: Two-year anniversary of Israel attack by Hamas falls during Gaza truce negotiations

Early on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led fighters launched a multi-pronged terrorist attack on Israel. The resulting war in Gaza has created a humanitarian catastrophe.

Freddie Clayton

Two years after the Oct. 7 attacks, Eyal Eshel still remembers the morning he lost contact with his daughter, 19-year-old soldier Roni Eshel.

From her post in the command room at the Nahal Oz base, less than a kilometer from the Gaza Strip, she never answered his calls that day.

“She didn’t answer for me on the phone from the moment of 6:23, actually, until today,” he told NBC News. “But I tried and I tried and I tried, for a long time, the whole day.”

Eyal said the feeling he had on Oct. 7 is “exactly the same feeling” he has today — with 48 hostages both dead and alive still trapped in Gaza — something he holds the government accountable for.