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Israel Music Festival Attack: Video Captures Minutes before Terror Struck
Israel Music Festival Attack: Video Captures Minutes before Terror Struck
The festival descended into chaos when the terrorists attacked the site, killing at least 260 people and abducting many more.
A video that has surfaced on social media shows missiles flying towards a music festival in Israel.
The festival descended into chaos when the terrorists attacked the site, killing at least 260 people and abducting many more.
A video that has surfaced on social media shows missiles flying towards a music festival in Israel (nytimes screenshots/Instagram). Thousands of people attended the party near Kibbutz Re’im, close to Gaza. Palestinian gunmen attacked the site and shot people down as they tried to escape.
During the attack, Hamas’ militants infiltrated Israeli towns and launched missiles, reportedly resulting in the deaths of at least 250 people in Israel and 232 in Gaza.
In a televised address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack “murderous.” ‘They turned off the electricity’ Videos from the site went viral, with one of them showing militants abducting a young woman, Noa Argamani, and taking her away on the back of a motorcycle as she screamed for help. The men were seen restraining her boyfriend, Avinatan Or.
He was seen being made to walk with his hands held behind his back.
They are being considered two of several Israelis who are believed to be held captive in Gaza at present.
“They turned off the electricity,” Reveller Ortel told local media.
“Suddenly, out of nowhere, militants come inside with gunfire, opening fire in every direction. Fifty terrorists arrived in vans, dressed in military uniforms.” Reveller added,
“They fired bursts, and we reached a point where everyone stopped their vehicles and started running. I went into a tree, a bush like this, and they just started spraying people.
I saw masses of wounded people thrown around, and I’m in a tree, trying to understand what’s going on.” “People were hit,” festivalgoer Adam Barel told Haaretz. We hid.
Everyone ran somewhere else. “What did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say? Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that Israel “is at war.”
“Citizens of Israel, we are at war. Not an operation, not a round [of fighting] at war!
This morning, Hamas initiated a murderous surprise attack against the state of Israel and its citizens,” Netanyahu said in his filmed statement in Hebrew.
“We have been in this since the early morning hours. I have convened the heads of the defense establishment.
I’ve given directives, first and foremost, to clear the [affected] urban areas of the terrorists who penetrated them,” Netanyahu said. “This is happening right now.”
“In parallel, I am initiating an extensive mobilization of the reserves to fight back on a scale and intensity that the enemy has so far not experienced. The enemy will pay an unprecedented price,” Netanyahu added.
“I urge the public to strictly follow the directives of the military, the Home Front Command. We are at war and will win.”
