
Jerusalem – On October 7, when Hamas attacked southern Israel, 23-year-old Hersh Goldberg-Polin was at a party.
The Israeli American was among 3,000 revellers, many of them dancing to thuds of techno beats in the early morning hours about 5.3km (3.3 miles) from Gaza when Hamas fighters tore through the fence that separated the enclave from southern Israel and descended on the electronic music festival from across the dusty fields surrounding Kibbutz Re’im.