Terrorist attack on Israel
Horror after Hamas bloodbath at music festival in Israel
Israeli soldiers in a border town. photo
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They had come from all over Israel to celebrate, but the rave party ended in a bloodbath. Hamas attackers killed hundreds of people and dozens were kidnapped into the Gaza Strip.
After the one caused by the Islamist Hamas at a music festival in Israel’s Negev Desert Relatives are still desperately searching for the missing people. “I don’t know if my daughter is lying bleeding somewhere, I don’t know if she was taken to Gaza, I don’t know if she is suffering,” Ahuwa Maizel told the German Press Agency on Monday. The last time she spoke to her daughter was shortly after 7 a.m. on Saturday morning. Her daughter Adi called and said: “There is a massacre here, they are causing a massacre, hundreds of terrorists are shooting around.” Then the connection was broken.
“If someone holds her captive, please, please, stay human. We all have the same DNA, we are all just human,” Maizel says through tears. The uncertainty is unbearable. Innocent people must not be abused for political purposes. “Don’t let this become another Holocaust.”
Horrible pictures and videos on social media
On social networks, survivors shared how they experienced Hamas’ horrific attack on the Supernova Festival. Arik Nani describes how she tried for hours to get to safety. “We ran to the fields and heard constant fire behind us, saw people running and falling. We hid in the bushes as bullets flew over our heads,” says Nani, who celebrates her 26th birthday this week. She will celebrate him with sadness but gratitude. “I didn’t think I would make it.” She was dehydrated and ran for six hours with an injured hand until she managed to get to an emergency shelter.
Other eyewitnesses reported how they tried to escape in cars and came under fire. In pictures after the attack, dozens of burned cars can be seen near the festival site. Others hid in bushes and trees. “They went from tree to tree and shot. I saw that people were dying everywhere. I was very quiet. I didn’t cry, I didn’t do anything,” a survivor told the BBC.
260 dead on the festival grounds alone
Footage from cameras on parked cars shows the final minutes of injured festival-goers being shot by members of the EU, US and Israeli-designated terrorist organization Hamas.
According to the Zaka rescue service, 260 people were murdered on the festival site alone. Paramedics reported unimaginable scenes on site. According to Israeli media, numerous women are said to have been raped before being killed or abducted.
Around 150 civilians kidnapped
According to official information, around 150 civilians were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip in the major attack by Hamas, which also targeted several locations in the border area, including women, babies, small children and grandparents. It is expected that the number could be significantly higher.
The Islamist Hamas launched surprise rocket attacks against Israel from Gaza on Saturday morning. At the same time, armed Palestinians advanced into Israel by land, sea and air and attacked people in several towns near the border.