The natural course of grieving is distorted here, a year after the Oct. 7 attacks. This tight-knit Israeli community near the Gaza border is digging up its dead from temporary graves further away and reburying them back home, where it is safer to gather now, a year into the Gaza war.
Because it brings [back] everything, and we cry again. Israeli authorities say about 1,200 people were killed last Oct. 7, as Hamas led thousands of attackers bursting out of Gaza.
This year, Kibbutz Be'eri has grappled with questions of death, memory, guilt and vengeance. Questions from [the] inferno, really, says Merav Roth, a prominent Israeli psychologist.
Silence is what helped keep the survivors of this small community alive the day of the attack. Silence is what they carried out of hiding from their safe rooms along the Gaza border.
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