Lianne Sharabi and her two teenage daughters were murdered when Hamas militants stormed their home in Kibbutz Be’eri

Amid the pomegranate groves of Kfar HaRif, a collective farm in southern Israel, thousands of people gathered as the sun began to set for the funerals of Lianne Sharabi, a British-Israeli woman, and her teenage daughters, Noiya and Yahel.

The family were murdered on 7 October after militants from the Palestinian group Hamas stormed their home in Kibbutz Be’eri. Their father, Eli, is missing, and his brother, Yosi, has officially been declared one of the 220 hostages taken back to the Gaza Strip. Be’eri suffered such destruction, and so many of its 1,000 residents are dead or missing, that the Sharabis can’t be buried there; instead, on Wednesday, they were laid to rest in a cemetery 25km (16 miles) away.

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