As Israel marks the third anniversary of Hamas's 7 October attack, bombs continue to fall on Gaza
Israel marked the third anniversary of the 7 October Hamas attacks with memorial services while military operations continued in Gaza. The commemorations were held at sites of the 2023 massacre, including the Nova music festival and Kfar Aza kibbutz.
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AS MOURNERS GATHERED to mark the third anniversary of the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attacks at dawn this morning, the sound of Israeli airstrikes could be heard hitting the Gaza Strip not far away.
Most people at the site of the Nova music festival massacre in the Negev Desert bowed their heads in silence, although at least one instead put on techno music in tribute to the people killed.
Both at Nova and the Kfar Aza kibbutz, another site of mass killings three years ago, reporters with the AFP news agency heard loud bangs from across the border in Gaza during the commemorations.
Pictures of people killed at the Nova festival in Israel Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo
At a portrait of Yevgeni Postel, a 25-year-old student, his mother laid a bouquet of flowers and broke down sobbing.
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