At 6:29 a.m. on Oct. 7, 2023, at a trance music festival in southern Israel, about 4,000 ravers and staff were welcoming the sunrise. That was the moment when fighters and civilians from Gaza descended on the grounds as part of a larger attack by the militant group Hamas and others. Within hours, more than 400 from the festival were dead and 44 kidnapped — about one-third of the 1,200 people killed that day and nearly 1 in 5 of the 251 captured, according to Israeli officials.

The final Nova hostage, medic Bar Kuperstein, was only released from captivity last month as part of the ceasefire deal pausing fighting in Gaza that followed the Oct. 7 attacks. Nearly 69,000 Palestinians have died since, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Curators have re-created scenes from the Nova Music Fe

See Full Page