The Israeli rescue service Zaka says its paramedics removed more than 260 bodies from a music festival that came under attack by Hamas militants.
The total figure of bodies found is expected to be higher, as other paramedic teams were also working in the area and Zaka added that the bodies “haven’t all been collected yet”.
Early on Saturday morning, Hamas targeted Nova music festival, a techno rave in the desert near the border with Gaza.
Videos shared on social media and by Israeli news outlets showed dozens of festival-goers running through an open field as gunshots rang out. Many hid in nearby fruit orchards or were gunned down as they fled.
Try to make peace with my neighbors and not commit terrorist attacks against innocent civilians?
It’s pretty hard to make peace with people who are literally taking your homes. Perhaps if that wasn’t happening, it would become a lot easier to make peace.
You can’t justify it. There’s no excuse for anybody to ever commit pure evil terrorist attacks that intentionally target civilians.
Understanding it isn’t justifying it. Understanding it is how you prevent it from happening again.