>> jimmy: thanks to governor tim walz and judd apatow. thank you, judd. tomorrow night harrison ford will be with us. thanks for watching. apologies to matt damon. we did run out of time for him. "nightline" is next. good night, everybody. one year after the october 7th hamas attack on israel. >> they just shot everyone. >> they shot me in my leg and

i'm telling my husband, i'm shot. i'm calling my dad, telling him, abba, i'm shot. >> the first hand accounts of those held hostage. >> you've just broken up into pieces and trying to just survive. just to survive. >> remembering the largest massacre of jews since the holocaust. >> people that were just taken from their beds while they saw their friends and family being killed. >> and inside gaza. heartbreak and loss in the aftermath of october 7th. we hear from those who have endured a year of war. >> i learned that having future plans in war will destroy you more than give you hope. >> the children caught in the middle, on the ground, and the family of an american hostage still in captivity. >> i'm hearing all the bombing, and i'm like, edan, edan, please be safe. protect yourself. >> what sustains their spirit? >> we have to have hope. >> yeah. hope is mandatory. >> this special edition of nightline, october seventh, one nightline, october seventh, one year later. we'll be right backn

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>> good evening. thank you for joining us tonight. amid a widening war threatening the lives of millions, we take a look back one year later after the shocking surprise attack on israel by hamas. so many on both sides of the israel-gaza border

trapped in time, frozen as they were on that october day, unable to resume their lives and unable to forget the moment the terror, heartbreak and devastation bega. here's abc's matt gutman. >> it was a festival dedicated to peace. around 3500 people dancing and partying all night in the desert. and danielle sassy peretz was one of those people. >> seven of us from my family decided to go to the nova festival. i was going to bring my son rafael. we ended up leaving him thank god. and everyone just welcomed us in strangers. they walked up to my dad. that was just my dad. he was like a magnet to everyone. there was good, good, good. like almost too good to be true energy. >> but when the sun came up on october 7th, the dancing would

end and the nightmare would begin. >> and then i look up and i tell my dad i'm like, wow, look, they're fireworks. my dad turned around, and then my husband and my dad both look at me and they're pale. i understood that they weren't fireworks. >> danielle, her husband and her father fled in their car. they then took cover from hamas in a roadside bomb shelter. >> so we're all standing like sardines. and then i hear my dad calling all the men in the shelter to come to the front. you hear the shootings from outside. they threw in two grenades. then my dad jumped on one. and then they they just shot everyone. they shot me in my leg. my husband started taking more bodies on top of me so that even if they

throw more grenades or anything else, like a shield, i begged him to go to my dad. he made it to my dad. he shook his head to me. and then it was like a waiting game. >> how many grenades did they throw into that shelter? >> nine. and i'm the only one in the middle alive. everyone around me, on top of me, below me, in the front and back of me is dead. there's dead bodies on top of me. i held his hand for seven hours. >> whose hand today? >> i know his name is lotan. i didn't know him there. >> so you were holding a dead man's hand for seven hours? yea. >> he saved my life. everyone says i'm like my dad, so i as much as i can to be loud. >> and to be happy. you cannot

kill me. >> and i don't know. >> i promised rafael that if he saved us, that i would. continue to be me. so on good days, i. >> danielle and her husband made it back to see their baby. but so many were not as lucky. hamas said it had been planning the attack for years. first, they fired a barrage of rockets. then thousands of hamas terrorists entered the country, some using hang gliders, others plowing across the border in pickup trucks or by foot. allahu akbar. they attacked dozens of communities near the border, shooting indiscriminately, brutally kidnaping civilians, setting homes on fire and burning entire families alive. everywhere you look here, you see homes where people have been killed or kidnaped and across israel south. so many of these communities stand frozen in

october 7th, an estimated 1200 israelis were murdered on october 7th. it was the largest massacre of jews since the holocaust. and hamas kidnaped roughly 250 people, taking them into gaza. about 100 remain in captivity. bring them home, bring them home. the pain, frustration and chants of bring them home, echoing nearly 6000 miles away to new york city the last year for jewish people in new york and across the united states and across the world has been scary. >> now, these are actual people. the actual families hurting, aching, and there's a way to put an end to this demand that your leaders do everything in their

power to bring our loved ones home. >> yael alexander's son edan, an american citizen, has been held hostage for a year now. >> neidan is full of life, eden. like i'm looking at this house and like the parties he was hosting here with all his friends and game nights downstairs at the basement. he loved restaurants. he's a foodi. we have two other kids. we have mika. she's 18 and roy turned 13. they adore their big brothe. >> after high school, edan decided to move to israel and join the idf. >> he felt very passionate about it. >> she wants to protect the country that he loves so much. after it, he will come back and do the college. that was the plan. >> but that plan got brutally interrupted. on october 7th. >> he called me before 7 a.m. i

never heard he done like this. like he was shocked. he told me, you will not believe the things that i'm seeing. >> mom. at the time, edan was at his military post along the gaza border. >> i'm hearing all the bombing and i'm like, edan, edan, please be safe. protect yourself. i love you. this was the last phone call from him. none of the texts that i sent went through. >> they haven't heard from their son since, and the only updates they can hold on to come from released hostages. >> we heard from people that came back mid november that they saw edan in the tunnels. on october 7th, he helped a young woman like to become a little bit and to tell her, listen, you just you all civilians, you will they will let you free fast. it was everything for us, you know, because not knowing nothing about your son. nothing. and suddenly people saw him. people

touch him. people gave him water. >> the alexander say they've been in constant communication with the biden administration, spending many days in meetings advocating for their son's release. >> we feel like the hostages, it's really not the first priority for the for the israeli government, for this government. >> it's humanitarian period. we also want the ceasefire. we want to get the palestinian like relief from the war and i want my son back home and all the 100 hostages that are still in gaza. it's not humane. the whole family together for the alexander's hope looks a little different a year later, but it hasn't faded. we have to have a hope. >> yeah, hope is mandatory. i mean, you can. you can have hope. >> you cannot lose hope. >> it was just so hot. >> well it's difficult. hope is

mandatory for aviva siegel. she was kidnaped from kfar aza on october 7th and spent 51 agonizing days in captivity. >> you've just broken up into pieces and trying to just survive. just to survive. >> she was released in a hostage deal last november, but she says part of her is still in those tunnels in gaza. her husband, keith. i mean, when you think about keith still being in likely a tunnel, i'm finished. >> i'm just finished. i'm finished. it's just the worst thing to handle. i'm lucky that i got out. i'm lucky. but i'm the unluckiest person on earth because keith is. >> they're here in hostage square, once a bustling center in tel aviv. now a somber homage to those still held captive, aviva still thinks about the people she was with keith and them are just lying on a filthy, dirty mattress and thinking,

when is the next time they're going to be raped? >> or touched or tortured or starved or thirsty? because it happens. it happened all the time. >> you have children, you have grandchildren. >> five of them. >> are you able to enjoy any of that or is every day for you basically reliving october 7th? >> i'm reliving october seventh all the time. it's with me. i'm still in gaza, but i have promised myself that i'm going to be a grandmother to my grandchildren. they've got a life to live. i don't want them to remember me sitting on the couch and crying all the time. i keep myself strong, as strong as i can because i don't want them to break apart. to break apart. >> we'll be right back. with clearer skin. with tremfya®, most people saw 100% clear skin... ...that stayed clear, even at 5 years. serious allergic reactions and increased risk of infections may occur.

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>> welcome back. we're turning now to the aftermath of israel's retaliation for the october 7th hamas invasion, the year that's followed. the deadliest for palestinians since 1948. nearly 42,000 losing their lives, according to gaza's hamas run ministry of health. those who survived have done so against a backdrop of unimaginable suffering. here, again, is abc's matt gutman. >> it can be hard to. alive a can say i.

katibah al-muhajir or safiyya, but 13 year old leon abu al-ata isn't any other child. >> she's a child of gaza. she and over 2 million other gazans waking up that saturday morning to the sound of all out war. hamas terrorists had begun their slaughter of about 1200 israelis on october 7th. >> though israel didn't start this war. israel will finish it. >> over the next year, the idf decimating gaza while hamas operated underneath civilian areas in its tunnels. >> i have only one question. we, as civilians, where are we supposed to go? the fighting, displacing about 2 million palestinians, 90% of gaza's population over the past year, embedded with the israeli military. >> we saw it firsthand. >> this is where displaced people have been trying to get from north gaza to the southern

part of gaza. >> pretty much all the roads around us are obliterated. there is small arms fire just on the other end of this berm. here. and most recently, we were in rafah. what struck emptiness of the place. neighborhood in rafah, this devastation goes on as far as the eye can see. and as the war drags on, death and disease hang over gaza. famine is setting in in parts of the enclave with no end in sight. in the first few weeks of the war, then 21 year old college student tala ghazala documented life under siege for abc news. >> yesterday was very hard. there were a lot of bombings around us. in one second we decided to leave our house. they

are bombing and area. >> and so we went to the hospital. >> after a year of war, like so many others in gaza, tala's home was destroyed. unable to leave, she and her parents now live in a refugee camp. >> i was a university student preparing for graduation. i was a girl holding a lot of hope. i learned that having future plans in war will destroy you more than give you hope. searching for water is a burden on all gazans. you are deprived from everything. >> home for her is this small tent, a makeshift bed and just a few belongings. since the war began, they've had to relocate six times. batalla says she's lost so much more.

>> i lost seven cousins with their families in this war. >> since october 7th, nearly 42,000 palestinians have been killed and close to 100,000 have been wounded, according to gaza's hamas run ministry of health. hundreds of aid workers and journalists were also killed in the conflict. many of the casualties children. 13 year old leon narrowly escaped death. badly wounded during a strike at a refugee camp where she and her family had sought shelter. >> i had a massive madrasa

me at that time. for npr here in manhasset, ill. health ahead of them. >> in qatar. gaza. >> that's her father by her side in the hospital. >> has some new. >> after weeks. leon and her mother were evacuated to egypt. they'd hoped that doctors in cairo could save her leg. >> they couldn't get to her and had to. be >> are you going to keep that second leg? >> i mean, how in

>> leon is now in america, where she is recovering and trying to start a new life. as for tala, she has a scholarship at a u.s. university waiting for her. if she could ever leave gaza. >> our thanks to matt and the team for more. be sure to watch the abc news live special october 7th the race to survive. streaming on hulu tomorrow. we'll be right back with a final thought and more practical? be able to perform here. and here. make a statement while barely making a sound. and command the road, as well as what lies ahead. how we get there matters.

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