On the morning of October 7, 2023, many of the Nova party participants fled to the shelters located along Road 232. One of them, which was originally placed at the Gama junction and in which the late Dan Harel and the late Ron Shemer were murdered, has been transferred to the memorial site in the Re’im parking lot. The shelter allows visitors to understand, first-hand, the dimensions of the shelter space, and to learn not only the story of Dan and Ron, but also the stories of the many men and women who were murdered in the various shelters along the road, and the heroic deeds that took place in those shelters.

The interior of the shelter is only about six and a half square meters. It is about 3.10 meters long, 2.10 meters wide and 2 meters high. Despite the small area inside each of the shelters, some of them were crowded with close to 40 people who sought protection from the rocket fire, not knowing that convoys of terrorists were already making their way towards them.

When the terrorists reached the area, they fired into the shelters and repeatedly threw grenades into them. Many of the people who were hiding in the shelters were killed, others were kidnapped, and some of the survivors were forced to hide for hours under the bodies of their friends, while pretending to be dead, until rescue forces arrived.