Festival attack survivors say at least 50 who attended have taken their own lives | World News [Video]

A survivor of the Nova Festival massacre has claimed that more than 50 people who were also there have committed suicide in the months after.

Guy Ben Shimon told a parliamentary affairs meeting that the true number could now be ‘much higher’ as survivors struggle.

The weekend-long Supernova Sukkot Gathering in a forest clearing near Kibbutz Re’im, three miles from the Gaza border, ended with hundreds dead after Hamas fighters stormed the event.

Attendees at the festival, billed as a celebration of ‘friends, love and infinite freedom’, hid under bulled-riddled vehicles as motorcycle-riding militants bottlenecked fleeing cars.

Mr Shimon said: ‘I don’t know if everyone knows, but there are close to 50 suicides among people from the Nova party.

‘And there are many more who have been forcibly hospitalised. I have lots of friends who don’t get out of bed.

‘I still cannot get out, I brought in a little dog to simply get me going around the house, …