The Tribe of Nova trance music festival, near Kibbutz Reim, was one of the first targets for Hamas militants as they launched their unprecedented attack on Israel.
The first rockets were fired just before dawn, arcing through the sky over thousands of revellers who had been dancing through the night at a trance music festival - billed as an event celebrating “friends, love and infinite freedom.”
A person wearing a yellow safety vest, dressed in black directs crowds away from the stages. Then the gunfire started.“We started running; we didn’t know where to go,” Ben Haim said. “Nobody knew what to do.” Relatives searching for the missing at a nearby intersection said more than a thousand people were at the event when the militants attacked.
Ben Haim saw the militants in the distance, closing in on foot. “I took the car keys from a friend of mine that was really wasted and got as many people in the car as possible and started driving like crazy,” she said. “The people who stayed, most of them got kidnapped or murdered.”Gal Raz, 31, thinks it was less than an hour after the attack began when it became clear the area was being overrun. He also started to drive out with a group of friends.
On Saturday, they saw the couple in a video circulating on Palestinian social media. It shows Argamani screaming as she is separated from her boyfriend and driven off on a motorcycle.“You can absolutely see it was her,” said Marciano, who is staying with Argamani’s parents. “I think I haven’t fully accepted it yet; I slept in her bed last night. It’s crazy.”
Philippines Latest News, Philippines Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Hamas Israel: Iranian security forces ‘helped plan Hamas attack on Israel’Two members of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hizbollah told the Wall Street Journal that Saturday’s deadly attack was organised in meetings with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from August.
Read more »
Hamas Israel: A bitter blame game will follow Israel’s wartime unityIsraeli unity will last a while because this crisis is very far from over. But, fairly soon, Israel will be plunged into a divisive political argument about what went wrong.
Read more »
‘Appalling’: Thorpe ‘stands with’ PalestineIndigenous senator and No campaigner Lidia Thorpe has publicly rallied behind Palestine in a “foul” and “appalling” move, as the death toll in the Israel-Hamas conflict continues to climb.
Read more »
A two-state solution is finished, but Israel and Palestinians can still co-exist. Here’s howA former Australian ambassador to Jordan, Egypt and Syria writes that Israel and Palestine must forge their own agreement, but not the long-dead “solution” proposed by the United Nations.
Read more »
A two-state solution is finished, but Israel and Palestinians can still co-exist. Here’s howA former Australian ambassador to Jordan, Egypt and Syria writes that Israel and Palestine must forge their own agreement, but not the long-dead “solution” proposed by the United Nations.
Read more »
Israel at war: Hostages taken to Gaza, sirens and explosions continue as night fallsIsraeli media reported at least 100 Israelis had been killed, while Gazan health officials said 198 Palestinians were dead.
Read more »