It was 6.30am when festival-goers noticed the rockets streaming through the sky over Israel's Negev desert. Some thought they were fireworks.
As dawn broke at the Nova music festival, gunmen from Hamas stormed the party and opened fire. Thousands of young people, who moments earlier had been swaying to trance music, scattered and ran for their lives.
Many would not make it. The massacre of hundreds of partygoers was part of a widespread and coordinated cross-border attack on October 7 last year.
An attack with consequences that have reverberated far beyond Israel's borders. Thousands of missiles were fired and 1,200 people were murdered, including children and the elderly.
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