OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
11:42 AM – Monday, October 21, 2024
After struggling with severe PTSD, a 22-year-old woman who survived the October 7th, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack at the Supernova music festival in southern Israel sadly took her own life on her birthday, according to the girl’s family.
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Shirel Golan’s distraught family reached out to the press and explained that she had been admitted to the hospital twice since the Hamas attack, which claimed the lives of at least 1,200 Israelis and resulted in the abduction of another 250.
On Sunday, her body was discovered in her apartment in Porat, central Israel.
“I saw that she had symptoms of post-traumatic stress, such as withdrawing and distancing herself from her friends. I asked her to take care of herself,” her brother Eyal told Israeli media.
Her family told the press that Golan, the youngest daughter of five siblings, had been planning to celebrate her 22nd birthday by touring the Cave of the Patriarchs and the Western Wall, as reported by the outlet Ynet.
“I asked how she was, and she said she was fine. I gave her a hug and a kiss, not realizing it would be the last,” he said.
However, her family blames the Israeli government for her suicide, claiming the government turned their back on the Nova Festival survivors.
“If the state had taken care of her, none of this would have happened,” Eyal said. “She said that she doesn’t get any help from the state. She said that she only gets aid from the [Tribe of Nova Community Association].”
Additionally, after speaking to the Jerusalem Post outlet, her distraught brother declared to the publication, “The state killed Golan. If the state doesn’t wake up, there will be more cases like this.”
Golan’s mother took an early retirement to care for her daughter and assist her in coping with her PTSD, but it was sadly insufficient.
“My mother had to retire early to be near her daughter,” Eyal told Israel’s Channel 12 News outlet. We didn’t move a millimeter from her, and the only time we left her alone was today, and she decided to end her life.”
Eyal described his sister’s experience escaping the October 7th slaughter, stating that she had escaped with friends in a car but started to feel uneasy for some reason and decided to get out of that car in order to hop in a police vehicle instead, who offered to protect her.
“Everyone who was in [that] car was murdered. Eleven people were murdered there. It was a death vehicle. She switched to a police car that took her to Kfar Maimon [a town in southern Israel]. And that’s how she was saved,” he told Israel Hayom.
According to Ynet News, the Ministry of Welfare and Social Services reached out to the outlet and refuted the family’s allegations, stating that Golan was “recognized and treated in the welfare system even before October 7 and especially after.”
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