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An Israeli woman who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after surviving the Hamas-led attack on a music festival died by suicide Sunday on her 22nd birthday.
The family of Shirel Golan said she was supposed to spend the day celebrating with them, but her body was found at her home in the central Israeli town of Porat. Golan and her partner Adi were among the thousands who were able to flee the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im as militants began massacring and kidnapping the partygoers on Oct. 7, 2023.
Golan’s brother Eyal accused the Israeli government of failing to provided desperately needed emotional support after the attack.
“If the state had taken care of her, none of this would have happened,” he was quoted in Hebrew media as saying. “The State of Israel killed my sister twice. Once in October, mentally, and a second time today, on her 22nd birthday, physically.”
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Developments:
∎ Seven East Jerusalem residents have been arrested on suspicion of planning attacks in Israel, including the assassination of an Israeli nuclear scientist and a mayor in central Israel. The suspects are all ages 19 to 23 and were recruited by an Iranian agent, police said.
∎ The Israel military says one of its Hezbollah financial targets attacked this week was a bunker hidden underneath a hospital in south Beirut that contained hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold. Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari did not say whether the money had been seized or destroyed in the attack.
UN agency calls for truce to treat wounded
The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency called Tuesday for a temporary truce to allow people to leave areas of northern Gaza as health officials said they were running out of supplies to treat patients hurt in a 3-week-old Israeli offensive. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UNRWA relief agency, said the humanitarian situation had reached a dire point as bodies are abandoned by roadsides or buried under rubble.
“In northern Gaza, people are just waiting to die,” he said in a statement on social media platform X. “They feel deserted, hopeless and alone.”
“I am calling for an immediate truce, even if for a few hours, to enable safe humanitarian passage for families who wish to leave the area & reach safer places,” he said.
