The sister of a woman murdered by Hamas at the Supernova music festival told NewsNation that her family hasn’t been able to grieve properly due to the constant barrage of sirens and missile attacks against civilians in Tel Aviv by Hamas.
Twenty-three-year-old Shira Elyon was one of the 260 people killed by a Hamas ambush attack that prompted Israel to declare war against the terror organization.
The terror victim’s sister Adar Elyon told NewsNation that their family still hasn’t been able to properly mourn Shira’s death.
“Sadly, even during the shiva, there was sirens all the time,” she said. “We couldn’t even respect her.”
Adar said her family is in Tel Aviv, “which is very stressful.”
She recounted to Time how her family found out about Shira’s fate at the hands of Hamas:
The army knocked on our door two days ago, telling us that they found Shira’s body. They recognized her by a DNA test. Her body had been lying in the forest for five days. They didn’t bring them to the hospital because they were all full. They put them in a shelter near the party, and they said there were too many bodies so it took them almost a week to recognize her. It took them another day to bring her here so we could bury her. So she was dead for six days before we could bury her. Even when they came to tell us that she died, they didn’t tell us how or when.
Adar told Time that Shira’s friends described the horror as being “like the Holocaust, like running away from the Nazis.”
Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed that Hamas had released two American hostages, a mother and daughter from Chicago.
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