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Beeri, a kibbutz near Gaza once known for its quiet life, lost 102 residents in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault.

Two years later, only a few hundred survivors have returned. Most remain displaced as rebuilding drags on.

Across Israel, commemorations mixed mourning with anger, disillusionment and faint hope for peace.

BEERI, Israel — Little has changed in the house of Miri Gad Messika’s parents from two years ago, when Hamas-led militants blitzed into this tiny community less than three miles from Gaza’s eastern edge, killing more than 130 people and kidnapping 32 others.

The scorch marks from the fighting that day still mar the walls, and the underbrush of bullet-shattered tiles

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