This is the shocking moment Hamas militants opened fire on an Israeli civilian vehicle as its driver tried to escape the terror group’s unprecedented attack.
The footage was captured with a dashboard camera with a timestamp of 7:39 a.m. on Saturday morning, less than two hours after the surprise attack was launched.
As of Tuesday, Israeli television channels reported that the death toll from the Hamas attack had risen to 900 Israelis, with at least 2,600 injured and dozens captured.
Among the Israeli dead were 270 mostly young people shot at the Nova desert music festival – just 6 km from the Gaza-Israel barrier – where some of the hostages were kidnapped.
It is understood the driver was one of the festival-goers who tried to escape but was shot dead as they approached a Hamas roadblock.
This is the shocking moment Hamas militants opened fire on an Israeli civilian vehicle as its driver tried to escape the terror group’s unprecedented attack
The video begins with the car speeding down an otherwise deserted road in southern Israel. One car overturned while another flipped onto its side.
As the vehicle goes around a curve, dark-clothed figures can be seen in the distance asking the driver to slow down the car.
As the car slows down, one of these figures runs into the middle of the road and another emerges from the bushes on the left side of the asphalt.
It quickly becomes clear that the two men are armed, and as the car drives around the first man, he raises a rifle and opens fire on the vehicle.
Somehow the driver initially manages to avoid the first two Hamas fighters, but as the car drives around them, more fighters appear further down the street.
Suddenly the windshield shatters as bullets hit the car. It rolls further down the street to what is clearly seen in the footage as a Hamas roadblock.
At least four other militants can be seen firing at the car, which slowly turned left and eventually came to a stop when it crashed into the rear of another vehicle that was driven to the side of the road – suggesting it was the Driver was shot.
In dashcam footage taken at 7:40 a.m. Saturday, two Hamas militants (left) can be seen approaching the Israeli civilian vehicle, about an hour after the Palestinian militant group launched its deadly attack from Gaza
The vehicle’s windshield cracked after a hail of bullets fired by Hamas militants hit the vehicle as it drove down a road and seemingly unknowingly entered a Hamas roadblock
Four armed militants block the car and fire rifles into the front of the vehicle
In the footage, the car slowly turns left and eventually comes to a stop when it collides with the rear of another vehicle, which is driven to the side of the road – suggesting the driver was shot. Militants (pictured) are then seen checking the car for survivors
A second portion of the same dashcam footage shows several heavily armed militants surrounding the car, seemingly searching for survivors in the vehicles stopped on the side of the road.
Others can be seen driving cars and motorcycles up the street – back in the direction the car came from.
It was not clear from the footage why the driver slowed down as the gunmen approached, but some speculated that they may have initially believed they were members of the Israel Defense Forces (IFD) rather than Hamas fighters.
However, by the time they realized who the men were, it was too late.
It was also not clear exactly where the attack on the vehicle took place, but given the timestamp of the video, it was likely in southern Israel, where the Palestinian militant group launched its deadly surprise attack from the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
The Hamas attack penetrated the Gaza border fence – long considered impregnable and guarded by surveillance cameras, drones, patrols and watchtowers – and reached up to 10 miles deep into Israeli territory before reversing.
In a second video that emerged, also captured on a dashcam, Hamas terrorists can be seen attacking Israeli civilians hiding in a bomb shelter.
The shelter was also near the Nova Festival, just a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip.
A shirtless man is held at gunpoint outside the shelter, kicked and threatened by a group of militants.
But when the attackers notice people hiding in the shelter, they throw a grenade inside and shoot those who try to escape.
Pictured: Aerial footage shows the aftermath of an attack by Palestinian militants on the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Reim in the Negev Desert of southern Israel on October 8
Several cars – some burned out – were driven to the side of the road after people fled the Nova music festival in southern Israel
Footage shows terrified young Israelis fleeing Hamas militants as they launched a deadly attack on attendees at the Desert Nova music festival
A picture taken on October 10, 2023 shows the deserted site of the weekend attack by Palestinian militants on the Nova Desert Music Festival near Kibbutz Reim
Abandoned cars and scattered objects can be seen following the attack on the festival
An aerial photo shows the deserted site of the weekend attack by Palestinian militants on the Nova desert music festival near Kibbutz Reim in southern Israel on October 10
More than 270 bodies, mostly young people, were scattered across the site of the music festival at a kibbutz in the Negev Desert where the driver is believed to have come from. It was feared that other revelers were among the prisoners taken to Gaza.
The Nova festival took place near Kibbutz Re’im.
Survivors described how the gunmen went “tree by tree” and executed festival-goers.
Some survivors posted clips of the ordeal on social media, showing how they were forced to hide under bushes and record muffled farewell messages to their loved ones as they watched the victims being shot one by one before their eyes.
Many lay silent and afraid for more than five hours before hearing the sounds of armed Israeli rescuers speaking in Hebrew.
Separate harrowing dashcam footage of the attack showed gunmen executing civilians lying on the sand before rummaging through their pockets and emptying bags from their cars.
Israeli soldier Ephraim Mordechayev told AFP he saw Hamas attackers firing RPG rockets into the crowd. “Imagine using a rocket that is meant to target houses or tanks and is fired at a group of 20 civilians,” he said.
One of the approximately 270 victims of the festival attack was apparently a young woman named Shani Louk.
A fireball erupts during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023
Smoke rises after Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, October 10
The tattoo artist was captured and massacred by Hamas terrorists.
Shani, who was in her early 20s and grew up in Israel, was then stripped naked by the same fighters and paraded through the streets in front of a jeering crowd who spat on her motionless body in sickening scenes.
A harrowing video shows her naked body sprawled in the back of the truck while surrounded by the four Hamas terrorists chanting “Allahu Akbar.”
Her family, who desperately hope Shani is still alive despite the photographs of her body, said she was a pacifist who refused to take up Israel’s mandatory military service because of her views.
Further tragic footage showed a smiling Shani dancing enthusiastically at the music festival – shortly before she was captured by the terrorists.
The video shows Shani dancing with a group of other revelers while smiling broadly at the camera – a far cry from the harrowing footage that later emerged showing Hamas terrorists parading her naked body through the streets.
Meanwhile, Israel continued its deadly bombardment of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Tuesday night after the Palestinian militant group threatened to execute some of the around 150 hostages.
Israel already imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip on Monday, cutting off food, water and electricity supplies and raising fears that the already dire humanitarian situation will rapidly deteriorate.
Israel has been reeling from Hamas’s unprecedented ground, air and sea attacks, which have been compared to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
The Israeli army said on Tuesday it had “more or less restored control” of the Gaza border after a mass breakthrough by Palestinian gunmen on Saturday.
It said the bodies of around 1,500 Hamas fighters had been recovered in Israel, confirming the scale of Saturday’s attack.
It said the evacuation of Israeli communities around the border was “almost complete.”
Fireballs repeatedly lit up Gaza City before dawn on Tuesday as explosions rang out and sirens wailed.
Hamas said Monday that Israeli airstrikes had killed four of its hostages.
Later it was said that it could start with killing them themselves.
“Any attack on our people without warning will be met with the execution of one of the civilian hostages,” Hamas’ armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement.
In a televised address late Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared Hamas to the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, and said Israel planned to use “unprecedented violence.”
“Hamas terrorists tied up, burned and executed children.” They are savages. “Hamas is ISIS,” Netanyahu said.
He also vowed to “strengthen other fronts in the north against Hezbollah,” where militants and Israeli forces exchanged fire for a second day.
Hamas fired more rockets as far as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, where missile defense systems fired and air raid sirens wailed.
Israel said it had called up 300,000 army reservists for its “Iron Swords” campaign.