Much of these vehicles come from New Music Festival, where Hamás He murdered 378 people, many of them in their cars While trying to escape by the only highway in the area.
Look: where Hamas sowed death, today the memory blooms: the memorial that honors 378 lives truncated at the Nova Festival
Vehicles are in what was once an extensive wheat field. There are two reasons for warehouses on this site. One is because the highway so that the military who would end up neutralizing Hamásalthough his arrival was too late because they failed to avoid the massacre. And the other is the importance that the Jewish people give to the bodies.
The car cemetery is close to Kibutz Tkuma, in southern Israel. (Roger Zuzunaga / El Comercio).
“We Jews, as we believe in the holiness of the body, We have the obligation to bury our loved ones literally to the last drop of blood. So, if they murdered a person inside a vehicle, they even burned it until they finished this In ashes, the cars had to take somewhere to be able to extract those ashes, the blood, the remains and others. And then you had to do a complex identification process “explains our guide Gabriel ChocronIsrael connection co -founder.
Who was in charge of doing the work of identifying the remains in this catering of car was the organization called Agemade up of ultra -orthodox Jews. They do the toughest work when an accident or a terrorist attack is recorded. Their mission is to recover human remains and identify them so that they have appropriate Jewish burials.
The car cemetery is open to the public. (Roger Zuzunaga / El Comercio).
Three young people who were killed in a vehicle. (Roger Zuzunaga / El Comercio).
Not all the remains found in the cars were identified Because in many cases it was impossible to extract ashes DNA, so several of the victims ended up being buried in common graves.
Once Zaka’s work was finished, the most damaged vehicles, which ended up burned, were stacked in the perimeter of the place, forming a brown wall. Only on that wall there are about 300 cars.
The ambulance where 18 people murdered
The ambulance that was at the Nova Festival and where 18 people were killed. (Roger Zuzunaga / El Comercio).
The other vehicles that are not on the wall have the identifications of their owners, who died or were kidnapped by Hamas.
One of those cars is a shattered ambulance that is close to the entrance. It is the same ambulance that was at the Nova Festival. This vehicle the terrorists shot with launchers and threw an anti -tank missile.
When the emergency bodies arrived at the site after the massacre, they found the ambulance overturned and destroyed. When inspecting it they found human remains. Today it is known that Within the ambulance and around it 18 people were killed. Many of them took refuge there thinking it was a safe place.
Elyakim Libman, killed by Hamas on October 7, 2023 at the Nova party. (Roger Zuzunaga / El Comercio).
One of the remains identified in the ambulance corresponds to Udimim lib i23, who I was working as a party security guard. He decided stay To help to the injured people, whom he took to the ambulance. Hamas killed him.
Erick Peretz and his daughter Ruth (16)that had cerebral palsy And I was in a wheelchairthey also sought refuge behind the ambulance and were killed. The dad took her to electronic music parties because, according to him once, it was the only place where he saw that his daughter felt alive, with joy.
Nothing knew about him until the worst news was confirmed
Another of the vehicles that are in this cemetery is that of the young man Guy Illouz. On October 7 he had called his family to alert that they were attacking the Nova party. Then he didn’t know more about him. His body was not found, he was not immediately confirmed if he was kidnapped in Gaza.
But everything changed in November 2023, during the first agreement for the liberation of hostage women and children. A young woman asked to speak with the family of Guy Illouz And she confirmed that she had been admitted to a Gaza hospital together with the young man, both were injured.
Guy told the woman that she had been injured in the back. A short time later he died.
Now it is known that Guy is the young man who appears in a video that was recorded by Hamas, where he is seen getting out of his car and running to take refuge between some trees while he is shot. His body is still in Gaza.
The young man who returned to save lives
The car where Ben Shimoni was killed. (Roger Zuzunaga / El Comercio).
Another story is to Ben Shimoniwhich was killed at 31. He was at the Nova party with some friends. When the massacre began he ran to his vehicle, he climbed several people, and escaped to Beerseba, one hour away. He reached his destination and left his companions.
Ben Shimoni returned to the Nova party to rescue four other people. He took them to the nearby city of Nivot and left them.
He returned to the place in search of a friend who had not been able to flee. He located it and uploaded it to his vehicle along with two other young people. He tried to escape, but this time he was intercepted by the terrorists, who murdered Ben and his friend and kidnapped the other two young people. One of them died in captivity in Gaza and the other was released this year, in the last truce agreement.
The 13 murdered retirees
The photo of the retirees killed in Sdeerot that is exhibited in the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. (Roger Zuzunaga / El Comercio).
The minibus where the 13 retirees were killed. (Roger Zuzunaga / El Comercio).
In the Card Cemetery is the Minibus where 13 retirees were killed. The image of that crime went around the world that October 7. The victims went from the city of Sderot Towards the Dead Sea.
A damage in one of the wheels marked its destination. When they waited for the driver to solve the problem, the terrorists arrived in a white van and shot them at close range. The bodies ended near the minubus.Recommended video
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