There are many caboots communities that border Gaza, and many of them were attacked on October 7th by Hamas.

But one with among the highest death tolls and perhaps the greatest destruction was near O's.

Now, as some of its members were released just this past weekend after nearly 18 months in captivity,

the community there is facing an existential question, how to rebuild and how

to be reborn. Producer Carl Bostic in Israel and Nick Schifrin have this report.

It must be torn down, some residents say, to rise up again. Kibbutz Nuraaz is taking the first steps to regain what was lost,

removing ruins to heal the hurt.

We want to come back to Neroz and we feel that you cannot start alive while living next to a cemetery, you know.

Ola Metzker has lived in Niraz for 30 years and raised her kids here.

She says to give Nira's new life, it must be reborn.

Something more beautiful needs to come.

Raised from the ashes.

It needs to start from scratch.

I think it will be more healthier for people who come back and who decide

to build their lives here again.

On October the 7th, a tide of terror tore life here apart. No Israeli community paid a heavier

price. Of 400 residents, more than 40 killed, and 76 kidnapped to Gaza, including Ola Mezker's

father and mother-in-law, Yoram and Tommy.

She was released in 2023.

He died in captivity. The shadow will stay in our lives forever, I think.

I don't need any ruined house to remind me of that.

I think my father-in-law would want that to see this place flourishing, you know, and full of families again.

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