"Oren Graziani could not sleep last night, as he was too busy debating if he should attend his son's memorial in the morning. Dawn broke and his wife and daughter announced they were going to spend the day at the resort city of Eilat; they wanted to avoid their grief for a day. Graziani decided to go alone. I felt in my heart that I must come here."
"The attack was the most brutal in Israel's history, shattering the country's sense of safety and prompting Israel to launch a still ongoing war on Gaza that has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians and left it accused by a UN commission of inquiry of conducting genocide in Gaza. The thud of artillery and the whomp of a minigun being fired by a gunship in Gaza just a few miles away provoked no reaction from people attending memorials."
Oren Graziani wrestled with whether to attend his son's memorial and decided to go alone while his wife and daughter sought a day away in Eilat. Maor Graziani, 21, was killed at the Nova music festival, one of nearly 400 victims at that site. Hundreds of Israelis attended memorials marking two years since Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage. The attacks prompted a continued Israeli military offensive in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians amid accusations of genocide by a UN commission. Memorial attendees remained focused despite nearby artillery and gunship fire, while Gaza experienced continued bombing and deaths.
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