Nearly 30 young people took refuge inside a grimy bunker on the morning of Oct. 7, hoping the reinforced-concrete shelter near the border with Gaza would fulfill its promise of protection.
Health officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes have killed more than 11,000 people in the Palestinian enclave.
There is no official list of who was in the bunker near Re’im, one of hundreds of shelters that dot the roads of southern Israel.
Seeing a shelter, its exterior painted with a colorful mural of a bird, they pulled their cars off the road and sought safety inside.
She had arrived at the festival around 4:30 a.m. with her boyfriend, her nephew and his girlfriend.
Persons:
”, Ziv Abud
Organizations:
Health
Locations:
Gaza, Kibbutz Re’im, Israel, Re’im, Tel Aviv