People hold hands at a memorial event marking the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack in southern Israel, in Tel Aviv, on October 7, 2024.Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images

October 7 massacre survivor commits suicide on her birthday. She was 22

Shirel Golan was found lifeless in the yard of her home in central Israel. The exact cause of death was not made public

by · National Post

A survivor of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 Nova music festival massacre, Shirel Golan, took her own life on Sunday, her 22nd birthday. She was found lifeless in the yard of her home in Moshav Porat in central Israel. The exact cause of death was not made public.

She was set to have visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron with her family.

I want the world to know what Hamas did to me in the tunnelsThey were locked deep down in the tunnels for days. The terrorists went up because there was not enough oxygen to breathe. There was never enough water. They slept on filthy mattresses, in their filthy clothes. They were tortured and starved, sometimes given half a pita or two dates. The terrorists would eat and drink in front of them. “Once they ate a piece of fish and we had two teaspoons from it. It was delicious. Someone who knows how to cook, one of the mothers of the terrorists, I guess. It was the best thing I ate there,” says Aviva Siegel, who spent 51 days held captive by Hamas underground in tunnels and in terrorist homes in 13 locations in Gaza.Karin Kloosterman, Special to National Post, 02 Oct 2024How Israel trains introverted ‘weasels’ to crack down on Hamas’s tunnelsPart of Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza will involve finding and destroying a vast network of underground tunnels that Hamas has been digging for decades. Here’s what to know about the ‘metro,’ as the Israeli Defence Force sometimes calls it.National Post Staff, 30 Oct 2023