Survivors and families of attendees who tragically died at Nova Festival during the deadly Hamas raid on October 7 will commemorate the victims tonight at a memorial concert in Tel Aviv.
The Nova Festival, an EDM music festival held just a few miles from the border with the Gaza Strip, was the first venue attacked by Hamas on Black Saturday. The terror group killed 364 people and took 40 hostage during its raid.
The location was where the largest concentration of murders occurred on October 7.
But defying the militant group’s action, countless Israelis were seen dancing and singing music at the ‘We Will Dance Again’ concert, held tonight in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park.
Proceeds from ticket sales will go to raise funds for the rehabilitation of the survivors of the massacre and the families of those killed.
Survivors and families of partygoers who tragically died at the Nova Festival during the deadly Hamas raid on October 7 will commemorate the victims at a memorial concert tonight.
In defiance of the militant group’s action, countless Israelis were seen dancing and singing music at the ‘We Will Dance Again’ concert.
Proceeds from ticket sales will go to raise funds for the rehabilitation of the survivors of the massacre and the families of those killed.
The Nova Festival, an EDM music festival held just a few miles from the border with the Gaza Strip, was the first venue attacked by Hamas on Black Saturday.
Many of Israel’s top artists, including Benaia Barabi, Berry Sakharof, Noga Erez, Mosh Ben-Ari and Ninet Tayeb, were scheduled to appear tonight.
The artists will play a variety of electronic music, in remembrance of what happened at the festival, as well as several trance pieces that were intended to be played at the Nova festival.
But while Israeli families were able to celebrate the lives of their loved ones, Gaza families were forced to say a tearful goodbye to nearly two dozen seriously ill children who left Gaza for treatment abroad on Thursday.
It is the first medical evacuation since the territory’s only border crossing was closed in early May after Israeli forces captured it, Palestinian officials say.
Kamela Abukweik burst into tears after her son boarded the bus that would take him to the crossing with his mother. Neither she nor her husband had permission to leave.
Many of Israel’s biggest artists were scheduled to appear tonight.
The artists will play electronic music, in memory of what happened at the festival
Israel launched the war in Gaza after the Hamas attack on October 7, in which militants swept into southern Israel and killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
A boy eats a slice of watermelon as he walks with a woman on a street market in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, June 27, 2024.
“He has tumors all over his body and we don’t know why. And he has a constant fever,” she said. “I still don’t know where he’s going.”
It was unclear where they would receive treatment. The children and their adult companions left Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, bound for the Kerem Shalom freight crossing with Israel. Israeli authorities say 68 patients and companions have been allowed to leave the Gaza Strip and enter Egypt.
The nearly nine-month-old war between Israel and Hamas has devastated Gaza’s health sector and forced most of its hospitals to close. Dr Mohammed Zaqout, director of Gaza’s hospitals, said more than 25,000 patients need treatment abroad, including some 980 children with cancer, a quarter of whom need “urgent and immediate evacuation”.
International criticism is mounting over Israel’s campaign against Hamas as Palestinians face severe and widespread hunger. The eight-month war has largely cut off the flow of food, medicine and essential goods to Gaza, and people there are now completely dependent on aid. The United Nations’ highest court has concluded that there is a “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza, a charge Israel strongly denies.
Israel launched the war in Gaza after the Hamas attack on October 7, in which militants swept into southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people – mostly civilians – and kidnapping about 250.
Since then, Israeli ground offensives and bombings have killed more than 37,600 people in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.