Some of the bereaved families whose loved ones were killed in a Hamas rampage at the Nova music festival joined a nature project group for a special tree-planting event at the site.
Around 1,000 people planted over 200 seedlings in the scorched earth of the Re’im parking lot where thousands of young people were partying in the dawn hours of Oct. 7 when armed Palestinian terrorists swept in to commit the pogrom where 400 people were shot, bludgeoned or burned to death at the Nova festival in a stretch of tree-dotted brush near Kibbutz Reim. Another 40 people were taken hostage by Hamas back to the Gaza Strip.
“I still can’t believe that we are planting a tree instead of hugging our child,” a mother whose son Dror was killed at the festival. Family members wept while planting trees with the Israeli Jewish National Fund, hoping to bring new life to the scene of death and desecration.
Urbanature is working on a tree planting project that will be located around the Gaza kibbutzim area in memories of all victimes of this terror / pogrom. a list of tree species will be selected and 1 tree per victim will be planted in their blessed memories. For more information or if you wish to help with this project, please contact us.