Israeli kibbutz remains a ghost town after surprise attack by Hamas last October

A year on from the 7 October incursion, Kfar Aza and Nir Oz are still mostly empty, with residents living in fear and anguish.

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00:00Kfar Aza, a kibbutz near Gaza, was devastated by the Hamas attack last October 7th.

00:07More than 60 of the small community's residents were killed then.

00:11An entire street of young people were massacred, with 17 taken hostage.

00:16Shaharsh Norman and his wife survived the attack and returned to the kibbutz to continue

00:20their lives in the ghost town ahead of the attack's one year anniversary.

00:25We didn't do what we have to do.

00:27Not our government, not our army.

00:29And we lost, and we still lose, every day.

00:33Every day that we fight in Gaza and they say, oh, we killed another terrorist, blew another

00:38house, it's not important.

00:41Another kibbutz near Oz was also attacked.

00:44It was one of the hardest hit of the southern communities on October 7th.

00:48117 out of its 400 residents were either killed or kidnapped.

00:53You can see it's a burning house.

00:57In the far away one, a couple was getting murdered, and in this one, a family of five

01:04staying alive.

01:06It's just a matter of Russian roulette in the end.

01:11Only a handful of the homes in the kibbutz were left untouched, with many of the remaining

01:15still carrying scars of the attack, like bullet holes or stained blood.