Festival massacre as rescuers find 260 bodies at site where revellers 'first realised something was wrong when a siren started going off before Hamas cut the power and started opening fire'
At least 600 people have been killed in Israel since Hamas launched its attack
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By Eirian Jane Prosser
Published: 15:39 EDT, 8 October 2023 | Updated: 18:58 EDT, 8 October 2023
Terrified festivalgoers first realised something was wrong when a siren began blaring at dawn warning of rockets. Hamas terrorists then cut the electricity before firing rockets and blasting gunshots from jeeps they drove onto the site.
Yesterday Israel suffered its deadliest attack in decades, as Hamas rampaged through the country's towns reportedly killing 700 people and abducting dozens more.
A senior Hamas official said tonight that the militant group is holding more than 100 people captive following its attack on Israel. In the last 24 hours fierce fighting has broken out killing and wounding thousands of people on both sides.
The Israeli rescue service Zaka tonight said at least 260 bodies have been removed from the festival site.
Music lovers attending the Supernova Festival were amongst those targeted, with Palestinian militants storming onto the site of the all-night trance music rave near Kibbutz Re'im, close to the Gaza Strip, as part of its surprise attack.
Yaniv, an emergency worker who was amongst those medics who raced to the scene told public broadcaster Kan News he saw 'at least 200 bodies of Israelis in the area'.
He said: 'There are at least 200 bodies of Israelis in the area I was in. It was a massacre.
'I've never seen anything like it in my life. It was a planned ambush. As people came out of the emergency exits, squads of terrorists were waiting for them there and just started picking them off.'
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