Pessi Cohen reburied in Kibbutz Be’eri 16 months after she was killed

Pessi Cohen, who was slain in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, is being reburied in Be’eri today, 16 months after she was laid to rest in Hod Hasharon.

Pessi, 68, was killed alongside three visiting family members — her sister, Hani Sitton, brother-in-law Zizi Sitton and nephew Tal Sitton.

At the time, all four were buried in Hod Hasharon as security restrictions didn’t allow any funerals in Be’eri, huge swaths of which were destroyed in the Hamas onslaught.

Pessi’s home in Be’eri was the site of a standoff between Hamas terrorists who holed up inside with 14 Israeli hostages, and IDF forces who gathered outside. Only one of the hostages ultimately survived.

An IDF probe of the incident found that troops fired light tank shells at the home before engaging the Hamas captors in a gunfight, and that most of the hostages “were likely murdered by the terrorists.”