DJs hold memorial concert for victims at site of Oct. 7 music festival attack

A DJ performs as part of a tribute to the people who were killed or kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas gunmen from Gaza. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)

Israeli DJs have staged a memorial concert called "The Set for the Angels" at the site of the music festival in southern Israel that was attacked by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7.

Five DJs played music Tuesday in front of rows of placards showing the faces of those killed in the attack that launched the Israel-Hamas war, according to Reuters.

"It's strange to see that all these people, all these pictures, are pictures of people that actually died here," Yahel Irony, an 18-year-old who survived the massacre, told the news agency. "Those people danced with me and they didn't survive."

Police say 364 people were killed at the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Reim while another 40 were taken hostage by Hamas, Reuters reports.

"I believe that each one of these people celebrated life and they wanted us to celebrate for them, with music," Asher Swissa, one of the DJs that performed at Tuesday's event, told Reuters.