Nova Music Festival Hamas Survivors Struggle
“It’s not a normal trauma,” says the lead therapist at a retreat to help the young survivors of Hamas's attack on Nova Music Festival
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“It’s not a normal trauma,” says the lead therapist at a retreat to help the young survivors of Hamas's attack on Nova Music Festival
JERUSALEM — Nearly 30 young people took refuge inside a grimy bunker on the morning of Oct. 7, hoping the reinforced-concrete shelter near the border with Gaza would fulfill its promise of protection. But just after 7:40 a.m., when a group of Hamas assailants, armed with assault rifles and grenades, attacked the shelter near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel, the very characteristics that made the tiny fortress a refuge from incoming rockets turned it into a deathtrap for those inside. In less th
Hamas’s assault on southern Israel began with a barrage of rockets, sending scores of people into roadside refuges. Then gunmen came to hunt them.