Attacked by Hamas at home, Israeli survivors find solace in a hotel
Residents of a kibbutz near Israel's border with Gaza are living in a hotel outside Tel Aviv after Hamas killed dozens of people and destroyed homes in their community.
SHEFAYIM, Israel — It's disorienting walking into the Shefayim Hotel along the Mediterranean coast: There is so much life and so much loss.
Families lounge on green lawns. Kids play basketball. Dogs are taken on walks through the hotel lobby past a handwritten roster of funerals that keeps getting longer.
These are the displaced residents of Kibbutz Kfar Aza. It was one of the hardest-hit Israeli communities along the Gaza border in the brutal Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,400 Israelis.
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