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Some take videos and pictures on their mobile phones, others
weep.
"It's very important to come and see with your own eyes," said
Samantha Malcar, from Canada. "You see all these posters of real
faces. And you see the destruction. You see these were real
people who lost their lives just for coming to a party."
Thousands of young people were partying in the dawn hours of
Oct. 7 when the gunmen swept in from Gaza.
According to authorities, 364 people were shot, bludgeoned or
burned to death and some were sexually assaulted at the Nova
festival in a stretch of tree-dotted brush near Kibbutz Re'im.
Around 40 were taken hostage back to Gaza, 5 km (2 miles) away.
Some tourists come on visits organised by civil society groups,
others come independently to pay tribute to those killed at the
Nova festival.
It was the single most deadly incident in a shock cross-border
assault by Hamas in which 1,200 people were killed and 240 were
taken hostage.
Israel's subsequent war aimed at eliminating the militant group
that rules Gaza has killed more than 26,000 Palestinians, health
authorities in the enclave say.
(Writing by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Frances Kerry)
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