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Lilach Almog walks past the remains of a police station seized by Hamas militants and buildings pockmarked by bullets in her southern Israeli town multiple times a day.“Every corner has become a memorial,” she said.“Even if you want to forget for a bit, you can’t.
You look outside at the wall and it reminds you of everything all over again.” Almog joined the roughly 120,000 Israelis displaced by the Israel-Hamas war but has returned home to constant reminders of the Oct.7, 2023, attack.A year later, survivors reflect on that day that changed everything.
They hid in bedrooms, bomb shelters, safe rooms and beneath trees as Hamas militants poured across the border.In the aftermath, they've mourned loved ones, struggled with anxiety, suffered survivor's guilt and questioned whether they will ever return home to places that still bear the scars of their ordeal.
The force of a blast at the police station across from her apartment building knocked Almog off her feet on Oct.7.She had scrambled to her home's fortified room after air raid sirens sounded in Sderot and watched from the window in disbelief as dozens of gunmen walked down her street with rocket-propelled grenades on their shoulders.
They seized the police station, and a dayslong battle raged before the Israeli military bulldozed the building with militants still inside.More than 30 civilians and police officers were killed in the area around the station.
Almog fled Sderot with her children and mother, living in a hotel in Tel Aviv for eight months, but government assistance ran out in August, forcing her to return to Sderot and memories of that day, when Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took about 250 hostage.The resulting war has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between fighters and civilians but says more than half were women and children.The anxiety of the past year has overwhelmed her, f...