As mourners gathered at the site of the Nova music festival to commemorate the victims of Hamas's attack one year ago, low sobs and murmured prayers were punctuated by the sound of artillery being fired by soldiers into nearby Gaza.
Relatives gathered around the homemade memorials to the estimated 365 people killed at the festival on that day in 2023, while attack helicopters whirred overhead and occasionally let loose bursts of automatic gunfire toward Gaza.
Many mourners, many dressed as though they were attending a rave, crossed a dusty field into the straw grass of the festival site...wearing matching T-shirts bearing the names of the dead.
Izchak was affixing a sticker carrying the name of his cousin Hanan (Hanania) Amar to a bunker bearing memorials to dozens of those killed. He just wanted to disappear for 24 hours.
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