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Tuesday, October 7, 2025
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Hundreds gather at site of Nova festival on second anniversary of massacre
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The parents of Shiran Slavin visit the site of the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Reim in southern Israel, where she and hundreds of others were killed and abducted during the deadly Hamas cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, as Israel marks the second anniversary of the attack, Oct. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Hundreds of people are gathering at the site of the Nova festival near Re’im on the second anniversary of the devastating cross-border raid by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023.
A ceremony is set to be held at the site at 11 a.m.
The Nova music festival was held in the Re’im area near the Gaza border as part of the Sukkot holiday celebrations in 2023.
In the early morning hours of October 7, Hamas terrorists stormed the festival grounds during their surprise attack on southern Israel, murdering 378 people and kidnapping dozens more.
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