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==Investigation==
==Investigation==
German prosecutors have opened an investigation against unidentified Hamas members, to investigate "belonging to a foreign terrorist group, hostage-taking and murder".<ref>{{cite web |title=Germany Opens Hamas Probe, As Mother Appeals For Help |url=https://www.barrons.com/news/germany-opens-probe-into-hamas-attack-on-israel-prosecutors-c07cd7fd |website=[[Barron's]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |access-date=10 October 2023 |date=10 October 2023}}</ref>
German prosecutors have opened an investigation against unidentified Hamas members, to investigate "belonging to a foreign [[terrorist]] group, [[hostage-taking]] and [[murder]]".<ref>{{cite web |title=Germany Opens Hamas Probe, As Mother Appeals For Help |url=https://www.barrons.com/news/germany-opens-probe-into-hamas-attack-on-israel-prosecutors-c07cd7fd |website=[[Barron's]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |access-date=10 October 2023 |date=10 October 2023}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 20:08, 10 October 2023

Re'im music festival massacre
Part of the October 2023 Gaza–Israel conflict
Re'im is located in Israel
Re'im
Re'im
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Site of the attack in Israel
Native nameהטבח בפסטיבל סופרנובה‎
LocationRe'im, Israel
Coordinates31°23′52″N 34°28′18″E / 31.39778°N 34.47167°E / 31.39778; 34.47167
Date7 October 2023; 7 months ago (2023-10-07)
c. 7:00 a.m. (UTC+3)
TargetIsraeli civilians
Attack type
Mass shooting
Deaths260+[1][2]
Perpetrator Hamas

On 7 October 2023, Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip attacked a large gathering at a music festival in Re'im, Israel, killing more than 260 people.[3] The massacre, perpetrated by Hamas, took place shortly after the beginning of the Gazan invasion of Israel.[4] Dozens of the attendees were taken as hostages by the militants and abducted to the Gaza Strip; their condition and exact whereabouts are not yet publicly known.[5]

Gathering and festivities

The Supernova Sukkot Gathering was a weekend-long outdoor trance music festival that began on 6 October 2023.[6][7] It took place in the western Negev desert,[8] approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) from the Gaza–Israel barrier, near the Re'im kibbutz.[3][9] Produced by an organizer called Nova,[9][8][a] the gathering was the Israeli edition of Universo Paralello, a psy trance festival that originated in Bahia, Brazil.[6] According to the organizer, the site was booked only two days before, after the original location in southern Israel backed out.[11] Scheduled to coincide with the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah,[3] the rave was billed as a celebration of "friends, love and infinite freedom".[9] The festival site had three stages, a camping zone, and an area with a bar and food.[3] Attendees described the crowd as mostly consisting of Israelis ages 20 to 40, from across the country.[8] Attendance was reported to be 3,500, but figures vary.[12][b] Security guards were present at the festival.[8]

Hamas' assault

The musical festival was one of the first targets of the surprise attack against Israel, launched by Hamas in the early morning hours of 7 October 2023.[9]

One attendee stated that after cutting the electricity, a group of approximately 50 Hamas gunmen arrived in vans and sprayed gunfire in all directions.[3] Some of the Hamas gunmen who attacked the festival infiltrated Israel via motorized paragliders,[13] arriving around 6:30 a.m., around sunrise.[13][14] As festival attendees fled in panic, jeeps filled with gunmen began firing at the escaping cars.[9][8] Gunmen also blockaded roads.[9] The wide open terrain left few places to hide.[9] Many attendees who hid in the trees were murdered as militants methodically shot them.[3] Others who hid in bushes and orchards managed to survive.[3] The massacre took place amid a rocket siren, signaling a barrage of rockets fired into Israel.[8]

Independently verified drone footage of the site showed dozens of scorched, burnt cars and skid marks.[15] Hamas paraded an injured woman[16] in the back of a pickup truck – Shani Nicole Louk, a 22-year-old tattoo artist and German-Israeli dual citizen; a video, which became viral,[17] shows her in a motionless state, clad only in her underwear, while the gunmen are chanting "Allahu Akbar", one draping his leg over her waist, another grabbing her hair, and a man in the crowd spitting on her.[18][19][20][9] Other footage of the attack, posted on a Telegram channel, included graphic depictions of murder and hostage-taking.[15][12] Footage from the attack raised concerns about sexual abuse of women by the attackers;[18] some sources claimed that some of the women were raped and then killed,[21][22] however, a Los Angeles Times article which formerly recycled such claims retracted it from its article saying "An earlier version of this column mentioned rape in the attacks, but such reports have not been substantiated". [23]

Hostage-taking of attendees

The Hamas militants captured an unknown number of participants; videos on social media showed them being seized.[19] The abducted concertgoers were taken to Gaza,[14] where some were filmed in Hamas propaganda videos.[24] Relatives and friends of the missing searched for information about the missing.[14][25]

Those apparently abducted by Hamas included a British man[26] and a Beijing-born, 25-year-old Chinese-Israeli woman.[27][28] Three dual Brazilian-Israeli nationals who had attended the festival were also missing.[27]

Casualties

Photographs from the aftermath of the attack show dozens of bodies at the festival grounds, including a badly burned body bound by cable ties.[29] ZAKA, Israel's volunteer community emergency response group, reported retrieving at least 260 bodies from the party grounds.[9][30][31] The death toll is expected to rise, as other paramedic organizations also responded to the scene.[31]

One of those killed was a British man serving in the Israeli military.[26] Lior Asulin, a retired football striker who had played for Hapoel Tel Aviv Football Club, was also among those killed in the massacre.[32]

Investigation

German prosecutors have opened an investigation against unidentified Hamas members, to investigate "belonging to a foreign terrorist group, hostage-taking and murder".[33]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ also referred to as Tribe of Nova[10]
  2. ^ After the attack, relatives searching for missing loved ones said more than one thousand were at the event at the time of the attack.[9] Some festival attendees estimated a higher figure, of 3,000–4,000 people.[9] An emergency medic who responded to the massacre at the festival placed attendance at 3,000.[3]

References

  1. ^ Tal, Amir (8 October 2023). "At least 260 bodies found at music festival site in Israel after Hamas attack, rescue organization says". Israel at war with Hamas after unprecedented attacks. Jerusalem: CNN. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023. At least 260 bodies have been found at the site of an Israeli music festival following Saturday's attack by Hamas, according to Israeli rescue service Zaka.
  2. ^ Boxerman, Aaron; Frenkel, Sheera (8 October 2023). "Dozens were killed at a music festival and others abducted". Israel-Gaza Conflict. New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Gillett, Francesca (8 October 2023). "How an Israel music festival turned into a nightmare after Hamas attack". BBC News. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  4. ^ Estrin, Daniel; Chappell, Bill; Kaplow, Larry; Kim, Juliana (7 October 2023). "All-out war: Israel pounds Gaza after militants infiltrate in a large-scale attack". NPR. Archived from the original on 7 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  5. ^ Lavin, Rachel; Smart, Yennah (9 October 2023). "How Israel's Supernova music festival turned into a massacre". The Times. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  6. ^ a b Bain, Katie (8 October 2023). "At Least 260 People Dead After Attack At Israeli Electronic Music Festival". Billboard. Archived from the original on 9 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  7. ^ "Tribe Of Nova Proudly Presents UNIVERSO PARALELLO ISRAEL EDITION, 6-7 October 2023, SUPERNOVA Sukkot Gathering". www.eventer.co.il (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 9 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  8. ^ a b c d e f "Thousands flee rocket and gunfire at all-night desert 'Nature Party'; dozens missing". The Times of Israel. 7 October 2023. Archived from the original on 7 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Morris, Loveday; Piper, Imogen; Sohyun Lee, Joyce; George, Susannah (8 October 2023). "How a night of dancing and revelry in Israel turned into a massacre". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  10. ^ Gilmore, Grant (8 October 2023). "Hundreds Reportedly Killed at Trance Festival in Israel". EDM Identity. Archived from the original on 9 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  11. ^ Bain, Katie (8 October 2023). "Artist Manager Describes Israeli Rave Massacre: 'It Turned Into a Nightmare'". Billboard. Archived from the original on 9 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  12. ^ a b Lajka, Arijeta; Mellen, Riley (8 October 2023). "Video captures concertgoer being kidnapped by militants". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  13. ^ a b Colin Freeman and Nataliya Vasilyeva, How a sunrise desert rave was shattered by paragliding Hamas gunmen Archived 8 October 2023 at the Wayback Machine, Telegraph (8 October 2023).
  14. ^ a b c Bethan McKernan & Quique Kierszenbaum (8 October 2023). "Shock and anger: Israelis search for loved ones after Hamas attack". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  15. ^ a b Cahlan, Sarah; Kelly, Meg; Oakford, Samuel (9 October 2023). "New video shows aftermath of music festival massacre". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  16. ^ Quinn, Allison (10 October 2023). "Mom of Festival-Goer Shani Louk Says She's Still Alive". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  17. ^ Agarwal, Mehak (9 October 2023). "Israel-Hamas war: German woman Shani Louk paraded naked by Hamas fighters was robbed, credit card stolen, says report". Business Today. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  18. ^ a b Sharon, Jeremy (8 October 2023). "Footage of Hamas assault on civilians shows likely war crimes, experts say". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  19. ^ a b Murphy, Paul P.; Goodwin, Allegra; Brown, Benjamin; Paget, Sharif (9 October 2023). "Desert horror: Music festival goers heard rockets, then Gaza militants fired on them and took hostages". CNN. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  20. ^ Kalisch, Muriel (8 October 2023). "(S+) Israel: Shani Louk, die Deutsche in der Gewalt der Hamas" [(S+) Israel: Shani Louk, the German in the hands of Hamas]. Der Spiegel (in German). Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023. Die Familie hat die junge Frau auf dem Video erkannt, ein Ex-Freund von Shani Louk hat es ihnen zugeschickt. ... Die 22-Jährige lebt allein in Tel Aviv... (transl. The family recognized the young woman in the video; an ex-boyfriend of Shani Louk sent it to them. ... The 22-year-old lives alone in Tel Aviv...)
  21. ^ Lavin, Rachel; Smart, Yennah (9 October 2023). "How Israel's Supernova music festival turned into a massacre". The Times. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  22. ^ "Column: Who's to blame for the Hamas attack on Israel? That debate is already going off the rails". Los Angeles Times. 9 October 2023. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  23. ^ "Column: Who's to blame for the Hamas attack on Israel? That debate is already going off the rails". Los Angeles Times. 9 October 2023. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  24. ^ Lindor, Canaan (8 October 2023). "Waiting for official help, relatives scan graphic videos from Gaza to find missing". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  25. ^ Breiner, Josh; Kubovich, Yaniv; Naot, Shira (7 October 2023). "Survivors of Massacre at Israeli Outdoor Rave Describe 'Battlefield'". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 7 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  26. ^ a b "London-born man killed in Israel, another UK citizen missing". Reuters. 8 October 2023. Archived from the original on 9 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  27. ^ a b "Hamas Israel attacks: The international victims of the assault on Israel". BBC News. 9 October 2023. Archived from the original on 9 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  28. ^ Zhuang, Sylvie (9 October 2023). "China-born Israeli woman Noa Argamani among those 'kidnapped by Hamas terrorists', embassy in Beijing says". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 9 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  29. ^ Subramaniam, Tara; Raine, Andrew; Poole, Thom; Berlinger, Joshua; Chowdhury, Maureen; Meyer, Matt (8 October 2023). "Israel at war with Hamas after unprecedented attacks". CNN. Archived from the original on 9 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  30. ^ "ZAKA says more than 250 bodies collected from site of music festival attacked by Hamas". Times of Israel. 8 October 2023. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  31. ^ a b Goldenberg, Tia; Shurafa, Wafaa (8 October 2023). "Israel declares war, bombards Gaza and battles to dislodge Hamas fighters after surprise attack". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  32. ^ "Ex-soccer star Lior Asulin among those killed at nature party". The Times of Israel. 8 October 2023. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  33. ^ "Germany Opens Hamas Probe, As Mother Appeals For Help". Barron's. Agence France-Presse. 10 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
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