RE’IM, Southern Israel – On October 7th, 2023, nearly 3,000 music and dance-loving Israelis had flocked to Re’im in southern Israel near the Egyptian border for the Nova Music Festival. The event was two years old and had grown in popularity. What happened there shocked Israelis and millions of people worldwide, as Hamas attacked hundreds of festival-goers, killing, wounding and raping along the way.
Videos from that day show hundreds of young people running for their lives. Many had been taken hostage, while others died at the hands of the terrorists.
Posted on the festival grounds today are photographs of all those who were murdered or kidnapped. Hamas murdered 375 people that day, which alone would have made it the second largest terror attack in history.
Now the place has become a shrine of sorts, where soldiers and civilians come to remember and reflect.
Elad, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces, told CBN News, “It’s tough. It’s a tough feeling. I’m also a member of the tribe and dance to music – the festivals. I have a lot of friends who were here. I lost a relative. I just saw his picture. You’re walking here and you feel the atrocities.”
The site lies just
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