Thanks to the song and the images, Israel commemorated the 364 killed and on the quarantine a music festival in the Negev desert was reserved on October 27. The occasion was organized on the site of the fatal attack.
Mary Louise Kelly, host:
One of the terrifying maximum episodes of October 7 against Israel was when Hamas activists attacked and killed a lot of other young people without distrusting a great party in the Negev desert. Today, one occasion has taken its position in the same position as a way to help other people to cure. NPR Eleanor Beardsley was there and sends it.
(Soundbite through Asher Swissa and Mor Avrahami (feat. Narkis) song, “im nin’alu”)
Narkis: (Sing in non -English language).
Eleanor Beardsley, Sugle: In a small clearing near a eucalyptus forest, a solitary album rider plays on its board on a scene. There are no spectators. Its crowd is a sea of face to face in the most sensible of the posts. They are the faces of the 364 spectators that Hamas activists killed here and more than 36 people who were taken as hostages.
Asher Swissa: My call is Asher Swissa. My DJ call is skazi. It’s just people’s bloodbath. It’s the bloodbath of music, freedom, anything much bigger than us.
Beardsley: Skazi says that Israel is international for what is called Psytrance music. Absent October 7, but played today with another 4 DJ Israelis.
Swissa: I would say that I have touched many festivals in my life: international. I have been around the world. But I never felt what I felt here at that time. I felt – a deeparray
(Soundbite of Music)
Beardsley: The faces of killing other people also screened on the screens. The event, a few kilometers from Gaza, was carried out in a hurry because the army authorized only 4 days ago. Armed Israeli infantry soldiers got. Cartonized cars have been transported and the roads are returned, however, there are still some mutilated beach and damaged cooling chairs. This DJ concert lasted the day, giving anyone looking for the time to arrive. Bar Makos, thirty -one years, arrived here with his dual brother for closing. They escaped the bloodbath on October 7.
Bar Makos: (for the interpreter) is a sacred floor for us, and we return to the circle.
Beardsley: Bar says that Hamas blocked the only way that day. The brothers escaped in their cars on dirt roads. Plan to leave the same way today. Bar says this is the first time he listens to music from the attack.
Makos: (through the interpreter) and this is the first time I am crying. Music takes it out.
Beardsley: Bar Wish is that Israel’s tight-knit rave network can start dancing together.
Jordan Guez, twenty -three, had many friends who died here.
Jordan Guez: It’s like kicking in the abdomen seeing all the faces and other people me and that I know and that I love.
Beardsley: She says is Israel on October 7 and then. She used to coexistence with the Palestinians in the future.
Guez: But what I see now is that it is and that they are occupied through a terrorist organization, and the global does not know. It is complicated. But the fact that other people think that two countries are fighting in the other, this is the story I need to break.
Beardsley: Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, the Negev in southern Israel.
(Tim McNary Song Soundbite, “Day at The Falls”)