Hostage Survivor Slams 'Disengagement Festival' Near Nova Site
Translated & summarized from Now 14 by baba
Hostage survivor Emily Damari fiercely criticized the "Disengagement Festival" held near the site of the Nova massacre, questioning how people can still believe in peace with those responsible. The festival, attended by hundreds, featured left-wing political symbols and occurred approximately 20 kilometers from the October 7th attack site. Bereaved mother Meirav Hagag also condemned the event, urging attendees to remember the victims of terror attacks. Damari further cited reports of Gazans vowing to repeat the atrocities.
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- Hostage survivor Emily Damari condemned a "Disengagement Festival" held near the Nova massacre site.
- Damari questioned how attendees could still believe in peace with "monsters" after the October 7th attacks.
- The festival featured political symbols associated with the Israeli left, including the Democrats party.
- Bereaved mother Meirav Hagag also criticized the event, referencing victims of terror attacks.
- Damari cited reports of Gazans vowing to repeat the October 7th atrocities in the future.
Hostage survivor Emily Damari has strongly criticized the "Disengagement Festival" held approximately 20 kilometers from the site of the Nova music festival massacre. "The 'Song for Peace' video hit me in the chest with an intensity I didn't know existed. How can people still believe in peace with these monsters? How?" Damari questioned, reacting to footage from the event.
The festival, which took place over the weekend at Kibbutz Mitzpe Gvulot in the Gaza envelope, saw hundreds of attendees dancing and celebrating. The event featured political symbols associated with the left, including participants wearing keffiyehs and shirts linked to the "Democrats" party and its chairman, Yair Golan. Flags of Hapoel Tel Aviv and the Democrats party were also visible.
Meirav Hagag, mother of fallen soldier Shir Hagag, also condemned the festival, stating, "Sing your Song for Peace to your 2,300 Oslo victims. To the 1,200 victims of October 7th. To the hundreds of fallen soldiers. To the bereaved parents, siblings, orphans, and widows."
Damari further referenced a video circulating online where Gazans reportedly stated that the younger generation in Gaza would repeat the October 7th atrocities. "Listen to them! There are no uninvolved people in Gaza, none! Everyone there is involved. People who celebrated the kidnapping of children, the elderly, women, and men, and today sleep in tents, they don't care, they are waiting for the next seventh. 'He who comes to kill you, rise early to kill him,' period," she asserted.