In an Israeli kibbutz attacked by Hamas they want two things: Their kidnapped loved ones home and peace
They were the scenes of the two worst atrocities Hamas carried out during their lethal raid into Israel. More than 415 children, women and men were slaughtered, another 60 were taken hostage, some of them to die in captivity.
The fields where the Re’im music festival took place, and the Kfar Aza kibbutz, have become shrines, five months on, to that dark day. The scars of what happened, the burned and shattered buildings, the places where residents fell, are preserved for people from home and abroad, to pay their respects.
The attacks on 7 October unleashed a savage conflict, which has become the centre of international attention with an intense search for a ceasefire to end the carnage. More than 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Health Authority and there is a desperate need to get international aid to the 2 million people trapped in the territory.
Talks in Cairo for a temporary end to
