Soon after the horrific October 7 Hamas attacks on southern Israel exactly three years ago, I visited Kibbutz Kfar Aza, from where 30-year-old British hostage Emily Damari was snatched, and the site of the nearby Nova music festival.
Memories of the blood-stained walls of the modest homes of Israeli families dragged from their safe rooms and beds and ruthlessly mutilated, raped, murdered and captured still keep me awake at night.
The makeshift memorials to beautiful young people slaughtered like cattle at Nova, while they danced the night away at the joyous festival, still haunt me.
As we travelled into the area, we passed
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