Dark Tourism Grows in Southern Israel as Visitors Pay Tribute to October 7 Attack Victims

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Southern Israel is experiencing a rise in dark tourism, as visitors flock to sites impacted by the deadly October 7 Hamas attack, the worst killing of Jews since the Holocaust. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.

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00:00Southern Israel is experiencing a rise in dark tourism as visitors flock to

00:05sites impacted by the deadly October 7 Hamas attack, the worst killing of Jews

00:10since the Holocaust. At the Nova music festival memorial where 364 partygoers

00:16were killed and 44 were kidnapped, visitors walk among photos of the

00:20victims while buses arrive with more tourists. For American visitor Dina Cohen

00:25visiting the site felt personal. Well it's important to visit because the same

00:29reason it was important to go to Auschwitz and the same reason it was

00:34important to go to the 9-11 Memorial Museum and pay my respects to the people

00:40who lost their lives tragically and without reason just snuffed out, true

00:49lives just snuffed out. But the difference here is that every single one of these

00:55people are my family and I need to know what happened to them. Tour operators

01:01have seen increased interest in the Gaza envelope and Nova festival site

01:05with a growing number of tourists paying their respects to the tragic history. A

01:09memorial of burned cars from the attack has been established offering a solemn

01:14space for reflection.

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