The calendar may mark a year on Monday since Hamas militants came storming across the border from Gaza, but scars remain for those in Israel and the occupied West Bank.
The calendar may mark a year on Monday since Hamas militants came storming across the border from Gaza into Israel, but at Kibbutz Nir Oz — one of the first places they attacked — memories are measured in people lost, not time passed.
The kibbutz, normally described as peaceful, is now eerily deserted — a scarred skeleton of its lush self. Hundreds of militants looted and burned their way through the community, as residents tried to hide in so-called safe rooms, designed to protect against rockets but not invaders. The people who lived here are devastated — bitter that help from the army, police or emergency services didn't arrive for almost a day after the attack started. Many are unable to participate in memorials this year because 100 Israeli hostages are still held and wars rage. It's too early, too painful, says Nili Bar Sinai. "We are still deep, deep in the trauma."
The war scars are among the freshest in Israel's north and here in the occupied Golan Heights. Almost every day since Oct. 7 — and now almost every hour — rockets fly from neighbouring Lebanon. They are fired by Iran-backed Hezbollah, a militia Israel is attacking with increasing force from the air and ground just a few kilometres from Katzrin.
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