Tuesday was a night of remembrance and reflection at an Oct. 7 commemoration event in South Boston.
The exhibit showcases the early hours of the Hamas terror attack two years ago in Israel. Survivors of the attack held a panel discussion and discussed how they are still coping with the tragedy.
The first missiles struck at 6:29 a.m. at the Nova beat Festival in southern Israel. Noa Beer was on the stage when Hamas attacked Israel.
“Looking to the sky and seeing the missiles,” Beer described.
Yaelle Bonnet was dancing when the attacks started.
“I can’t forget the sounds,” she said.
Bonnet and her friend tried to escape in their car, but she recalls masked men blocking the road.
“The gunshots were getting close again, so we knew that if we wanted to stay alive, we need to run for our lives,” she said.
The Nova exhibition in Boston honors the lives lost during the Oct. 7th Hamas attacks. Organizers say it makes you feel like you are walking through the aftermath of that day, even seeing the bullet holes in the portable bathrooms.
“It’s huge, just seeing it,” said Bonnet. “I know that for me, it was very, very overwhelming at first to be in the exhibition. It brings you in so much.”
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Survivors say the burned-out vehicles are a powerful part of exhibit because it shows how everything was taken that day.
“They weren’t satisfied with killing. They wanted to burn the bodies, and they wanted to make sure that nothing was left,” said Beers.
Dikla Lieberman Mileguir brought her daughter, a high school student, to the event.
“It’s not going just to a regular ceremony or vigil,” said Lieberman Mileguir. “I think this connects us closer to the actual events.”
“It just shows how there was no real motive, and this was just such an evil thing for them to do,” her daughter said.
These survivors say talking about what happened has become a big part of their healing.
“We get to commemorate our friends and show the world what happened that morning,” said Beers.
The survivors say the exhibit is also about celebrating the resilience from that day.
It will be open every weekday through Oct. 21st at the former F.W. Webb company building on Dorchester Avenue in South Boston.
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