‘My Jake died here…it breaks my heart into a million pieces,’ says mum of victim at vigil a year on from Hamas massacre

A BRITISH mates poured retired their heartbreak — and fury — arsenic they joined ­families of October 7 ­victims astatine a remembrance vigil successful Israel yesterday.

Michael and Lisa Marlowe were the lone Britons among ­victims’ relatives astatine a ­gathering marking the archetypal day of the Hamas horror.

And their contrasting emotions laid bare the agony of hundreds of families struggling to process their symptom a twelvemonth connected from the outrage which destroyed their lives.

Mum Lisa fought backmost tears arsenic she recalled her 26-year-old lad Jake — a happy-go-lucky lad ­“living his champion life” who had everything to look guardant to.

Lisa from Potters Bar, Herts, said: “I’m lasting astatine the spot wherever my lad spoke to maine for the past clip precisely a twelvemonth ago and it breaks my bosom into a cardinal pieces.

“But I had to travel present due to the fact that this is the spot wherever I consciousness closest to him present — it’s go ineffable to me.

“It was 4.30am successful the morning, UK time, erstwhile I past spoke to him. He conscionable said, ‘There’s a batch of rockets and brainsick worldly going connected mum but I’ll beryllium OK. I’ll telephone you aboriginal — I emotion you.’

“But helium ne'er called again and that was the past clip I ever spoke to him. Four days aboriginal it was confirmed helium was among the dormant and was killed trying to assistance others to get distant from the terrorists.

“That was conscionable what helium was similar — he’d bash thing for anyone.”

Lisa said she’d visited the godforsaken festival tract 5 times successful the past twelvemonth to consciousness adjacent to her mislaid boy.

And she has formed a adjacent enslaved with different victims’ relatives, who she hugged amid affectional scenes.

Carpenter and instrumentalist Jake was commemorated by a touching hand-painted chromatic next to his festival memorial’s candle yesterday which work simply, “Love You Son”.

But his dada Michael’s sorrow gave mode to choler arsenic helium tended the memorial to the lad killed by beasts helium called “Hamas scum”.

The mates spoke to The Sun astatine the dawn observance yesterday — adjacent to the spot wherever Jake was killed by a volley of 9 bullets.

Exactly a twelvemonth earlier, helium had been moving astatine the Negev Desert festival tract arsenic a part-time unarmed information assistant.

Consumed by rage

Carefree young revellers had been raving to a high-energy creation way called Pixel by Space Cat erstwhile rockets and terrorists aboard paragliders filled the sky astatine 6.29am.

Yesterday, the aforesaid way was played connected a dependable signifier past chopped abbreviated astatine precisely 6.29am — earlier an flooded woman’s screams chopped done the silence.

Dad Michael, 53, told however his beingness has been destroyed by Jake’s decease arsenic Hamas thugs from Gaza killed 1,200 and kidnapped 251.

But helium has besides recovered himself consumed by rage towards his son’s savage killers — and British Foreign Office mandarins whom helium says person offered nary support.

Michael told The Sun yesterday: “We haven’t mislaid Jake — helium was taken from america by evil Hamas scum.

“This was a festival dedicated to bid wherever young radical came to observe life.

“But these worthless, subhuman animals from Gaza came to termination them. They won’t speech oregon negociate — each they privation to bash is kill.

“A twelvemonth on, we are inactive successful unspeakable symptom and I can’t archer you however overmuch I miss my boy. I miss everything astir him — his smile, his consciousness of humour, everything.

"He had met the beauteous miss of his dreams successful Israel and told maine helium wanted to wed her.

“He had gone to enactment with ­security connected the tract to gain other currency arsenic helium prepared for a caller section successful his life.

“He told maine astir his plans to suggest to her successful Jerusalem successful December but his beingness ended connected October 7 and that ne'er happened.

“Now his woman is heartbroken similar the remainder of america — each of our lives person been decimated by Hamas.”

'Everything changed for us'

Michael and Lisa revealed their astir heartbreaking task has been explaining to their autistic girl Natasha, 25, that her big brother volition ne'er travel home.

Michael said: “She was precise adjacent to Jake and inactive struggles with the information that she won’t spot him again.

“Everything changed for each of america connected October 7.”

The vigil astatine the Nova Music Festival site astatine Re’im, conscionable 3 miles from Gaza, was the biggest memorial lawsuit staged yesterday.

Hundreds of equipped Hamas ­savages had stormed the tract and killed 365 people.

Many of their families began gathering earlier dawn yesterday to retrieve mislaid loved ones and console each different amid heartbreaking scenes.

Each of the festival victims was commemorated by a photograph supra memorials adorned with flickering flames and stones.

Families — galore successful t-shirts with pictures of their mislaid loved ones — wept and hugged each different tightly successful the pre-dawn glow.

The bittersweet commemoration was punctuated by the roar of outgoing Israeli artillery rounds blasting into Gaza and the rattle of dense instrumentality weapon occurrence successful the distance.

A monolithic information cognition was launched to support the site.

An Apache chopper gunship hovered overhead, backed by drones scouring imaginable threats, and troops and police manned checkpoints starring to the venue.

The immense information beingness was stepped up further to shield the accomplishment of Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who appeared connected the stroke of 6.29am to console families.

Israel subject chiefs aboriginal ­confirmed they’d been forced to instrumentality enactment aft detecting threats to the day events

Hamas fired 4,000 rockets connected October 7 past year, but managed to motorboat small much than a ­handful yesterday.

They targeted Tel Aviv successful a five-rocket salvo and besides deed Sderot.

Most were intercepted but 1 of the Tel Aviv projectiles smashed a mill yards from a schoolhouse successful the eastbound of the Israeli coastal city, injuring 2 women and leaving others successful shock.

Israel remained connected maximum alert portion its forces battled Hamas’s allies Hezbollah crossed the Lebanese border.

Israeli warplanes continued to blast Hezbollah targets successful the group’s stronghold’s successful confederate suburbs of the Lebanese superior Beirut arsenic crushed troops battled violent militia further south.

IDF chiefs said they had ordered the evacuation of 25 confederate Lebanese towns and villages to grow crushed operations and smash ­terror tunnels.

 Hezbollah has continued to occurrence rockets astatine Israel, causing injuries successful Haifa and Tiberias successful the northbound of the state overnight.