BOSTON —

On this day two years ago, 1,200 civilians were killed and 251 were taken hostage in a Hamas-led attack on an Israeli music festival, sparking the beginning of the war in Gaza

"There's no preparation for something like this," said Noa Beer.

Beer was one of the attendees at the event, the Nova Music Festival, when Hamas, an armed Palestinian militant group, began firing upon the crowd.

"You can't prepare your soul for so much loss, especially not at 29, and especially not when all you did was go to a music festival," she said.

Beer is now sharing her story daily at the new Nova Exhibition in South Boston. The traveling exhibition takes people to what it was like that day.

"I could just see hundreds of missiles," she recalls. "I only knew that something was going on when I was

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