One year ago, nearly 400 young Israelis were massacred at the site of the Nova music festival during the 7 October Hamas attack. As mourners gathered at the site of the festival to commemorate the victims on Monday, their sobs and prayers were punctuated by the sound of artillery and machine guns being fired by soldiers into nearby Gaza.
Perhaps no single scene across Israel more expressly exhibited the violence meted out against hundreds of civilians by Hamas, and the sub-sequent ferocity of the