The Times of Israel: an October 7 survivor Israeli girl took her own life on her birthday
An Israeli girl committed suicide on her birthday, just over a year after surviving a Hamas attack, according to the Times of Israel.
The girl, named, Shirel Golan, was at the Supernova music festival in southern Israel, which was the target of a surprise Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, but she survived the attack.
But on her 22nd birthday in October, Shirel Golan committed suicide in her home.
The young woman’s family said she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after fleeing the concert site during the Hamas attack, and was hospitalized twice between the attack and her suicide.
The family accused the Israeli government of not taking adequate care of the girl after she survived the October 7 attack.
Israeli media quoted her brother Eyal as saying, “If the state had taken care of her, she wouldn’t have committed suicide”.
