Parents of October 7 Victim Share Grief at Nova Site

Natalie and Didi, the parents of Nadav Bartal, who was murdered in the Hamas attack on October 7, shared their feelings in an interview with i24NEWS's "The Evening" broadcast, marking the first anniversary of the massacre. They spoke at the Nova festival site in the Gaza envelope, expressing that while they don't need a specific day to feel the immense void left by their son, they came to be there. Nadav, 23, was killed while attending the Nova music festival with two childhood friends. His father recounted that after rockets began falling on the morning of October 7, Nadav informed them he was returning home to Beit Aryeh, but was instead killed at the "intersection of death" near Mefalsim on Highway 232. Didi, Nadav's father, went to the Gaza envelope to search for his son and assist him, but found him deceased. "We saw all the bodies and the horrors here. I arrived at 4:45 PM and found him broken on the floor, shot. That's life, unfortunately," he said. Nadav is survived by three younger sisters and his parents. He was buried in the cemetery in Beit Aryeh alongside his two childhood friends who were also killed. The interview took place on the anniversary of the October 7 massacre.