CAR WALL : A VEHICULAR MEMORIAL

By Anshika Khera

The parking lot, to the west of Israel’s Tkuma Moshav , which was once empty , is now a macabre vehicular memorial to the terror attack by the Hamas , on October 7 , 2023 , in which 1000 were killed and almost 250 dragged back to Gaza. The visitors to this ‘car wall’ are greeted by a stacked pile of burnt and twisted chassis of over 1500 keeps, sedans and motorcycles, destroyed or damaged in the attack. Among these lies an ambulance in which eight people died and a white pick-up truck which belonged to an Israeli citizen .

Some of the vehicles in the Car Wall were dragged from route 232 and other places in the Gaza envelope. Most were dragged from the massacre at the nearby music festival. The Nova Festival , which is regarded as a peaceful gathering of music-lovers , was targeted by Hamas terrorists as part of its shock attack that day. Over 250 people were slaughtered; a survivor told British broadcaster BBC “fifty terrorists arrived in vans, dressed in military uniforms and fired guns in bursts”.

The Israeli leader is under growing international pressure to end the war. Relentless airstrikes have caused a humanitarian crisis that threatens to wipe out the civilians , as the suffer from starvation.