Loved ones of Supernova victims gather at festival site to mark two years since massacre

By ToI Staff and AFP 7 October 2025, 11:26 am

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People visit the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were murdered and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, as Israel marks the second year anniversary of the onslaught, near Kibbutz Re'im, October 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Relatives and friends of those murdered at the Supernova music festival on October 7, 2023, hold a ceremony at the site of the massacre.

Attendees hold a minute’s silence at the site of the attack in southern Israel, where terrorists killed over 360 people and seized dozens of hostages.

Orit Baron, whose daughter Yuval was killed at the festival with her fiancé Moshe Shuva, tells AFP the day was a “black” date for her family.

“Now it’s two years. And I’m here to be with her, because this is the last time that she was alive,” the 57-year-old mother says at the site of the attack, adding she felt “that right now she’s with me here.”