Several videos show the attack by Hamas militiamen at first light, the shooting and the escape into the middle of the desert. The electronic music festival celebrated nature for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot near Kibbutz Reim, near the Gaza border. Many victims are Europeans and Americans
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There are fears of a massacre at an electronic music rave in Israel near the border with Gaza, where Hamas is said to have killed 250 people: Israeli media reported on it, writing that many victims were Europeans and Americans (LIVE UPDATES) . “Among the young people taking part in the Nova Music Festival there could be hundreds dead and missing, perhaps even hostages,” writes the Independent. Several videos show the attack by Hamas militiamen at first light, the shooting and the escape into the middle of the desert. The electronic music festival celebrated nature for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot near Kibbutz Reim, near the Gaza border. There were at least 3,000 attendees at the rave, several survivors say of the event’s impressive organizational structure, with three stages, a camping area and a catering area. The militiamen “shot everyone for hours,” say the witnesses. Many were “killed in the bathrooms” where they hid.
An Israeli doctor: “A massacre, I saw at least 200 corpses”
“I saw at least 200 bodies on site,” reported an Israeli emergency doctor, Yaniv, quoted by the BBC, who intervened at the scene of the massacre. “A massacre, I have never seen anything like it in my life. An ambush, terrorist squads were waiting for them outside the emergency exits,” he continues. Some of the children reported missing were recognized by their families in videos re-released from Gaza showing the Israeli hostages. The relatives of many of the still missing participants have published photos of their loved ones on social media asking for help and information.
Noa Argamani was kidnapped with her boyfriend at a rave in the desert
She had gone with her boyfriend to a rave in southern Israel to celebrate nature on the occasion of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, but that party turned into a nightmare for Noa Argamani, protagonist of a viral video in which she was taken hostage by Hamas militants will be during the attack on Saturday. In the video relaunched by CNN, the girl is seen on the back of a motorcycle being taken away amid cries for help. Her friend, Avinatan Or, is picked up by several men and forced to walk with his hands behind his back. In the background there is a dark column of smoke. Family and friends of the couple have expressed a desire to share the video in the hopes of locating them and securing their release. “It’s very difficult when you see someone so close to you being treated this way,” Amir Moadi, a roommate of Noa, told CNN, adding that he knows five or six other people who were at the festival and have since disappeared. . “We must do everything we can to get her back immediately.”
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The testimonies of those who escaped the massacre: “Hours of terror behind a tree”
Then there are those who managed to escape the massacre and will hardly forget the horror of those long hours. “They were everywhere with automatic weapons. They stood next to the cars and started shooting, and I realized that it was very easy to get killed because everyone was running in all directions,” is the disturbing story confided to the BBC by Gili Yoskovich, an Israeli girl , who, like hundreds of her peers, attended the rave celebrating the Sukkot holiday. “The terrorists came from five directions and we didn’t know whether to run this way or that, so we got in the car and drove for a while. “Someone shot at me, so I got out and started running.” I saw a plot of land with grapefruit trees and went there to hide behind one of the trees. There she spent hours of terror and survived because she remained hidden in silence. “So I was in the middle of an orchard and lying on the ground,” the woman explains. “They were everywhere. They went from tree to tree and shot everywhere, from two sides. I saw people being killed everywhere. But I was very quiet. I didn’t cry. I did nothing. I was breathing.” The story continues: “I thought about my children, my boyfriend and everything, and I told myself that it wasn’t the right time to die. Not yet. Then…I heard someone speaking in Hebrew. Hebrew was spoken on the side and in Arabic by three others… I understood that there were soldiers. When she was able, the woman came out of hiding with her hands raised and walked towards the soldiers, who loaded her into a car and took her to safety.
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DEMONSTRATIONS FOR HAMAS
- Demonstrations in support of Hamas and against Israel took place in several European cities and beyond: from Berlin To Parisbut also in Canada and Türkiye and in the countries Medium Orientafter Palestine attacked the Israelis by firing 5,000 rockets from the Gaza Strip
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BERLIN
- After about a hundred people chanted violence against Israel yesterday evening, there were clashes between demonstrators and police officers in Berlin. There The police intervened and isolated Sonnenaleewhile appeals not to cover up and refrain from shouting hateful slogans fell on deaf ears
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Clashes with the police
- The arguments started with Stone throwing against the police officers while a police car was destroyed. After two in the morning the situation returned to normal
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