2023-10-08 14:36:00
An Israeli woman participating in a religious festival near the Gaza Strip described the horrible moment when Hamas gunmen They stormed the dance festival and began opening fire on anyone they saw as people fled for their lives.
Gili Yoskovich, terrified, hid under a tree trembling for three hours as bullets whizzed around them as terrorists opened fire Saturday morning on defenseless attendees of the all-night festival in the desert near Kibbutz Re’im near the Gaza Strip.
It happened as the Islamist group launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza, in a dramatic escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hundreds of people have been killed on both sides since Hamas launched the multi-pronged attack at dawn on Saturday.
The Sukkot trance religious music festival that had begun that night in the desert near Kibbutz Re’im near the Gaza Strip was coming to an end. When suddenly, a group of armed men identified with the Islamic group Hamas massacred the revelers.
One of the festival attendees, Gili Yoskovich, hid under a tree while everything around him was stained with blood. With her eyes closed and sheltered, she listened to the drone of bullets and the rattle of death around her. She was like that for three hours.
Yoskovich described the horror as the massacre unfolded. In conversation with the BBC, the survivor said: “They went tree by tree and shot. Everywhere. On two sides. I saw people dying everywhere. He was very quiet. “I didn’t cry, I didn’t do anything.”
Hamas militants were heard opening a “large van” to grab more weapons and remained in the area for three hours. Under the tree, Yoskovich thought regarding her children and she said to herself “It’s not time to die yet.”
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But “the craziest thing,” he recalled, was how they were there for hours without the army coming to rescue them. “Then I started hearing some Hebrew, on the one hand, [pero] Arabic on three sides. “I noticed there were some soldiers, maybe five or six,” he said.
“I decided to go to these soldiers. Meanwhile there were still terrorists out there, so she went with her hands up so they would know it’s me and I’m not a terrorist. “Then someone put me in a car,” She had been rescued by the Israeli army.
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images of terror
Through the social network TikTok, images of the kidnappings carried out by members of the Islamic resistance group Hamas were leaked. Daniel, another of the witnesses and survivors of the festival, explained in the British newspaper Daily Mail that a siren had alerted people to the impending doom, and the immediate panic that gripped the crowd.
“[La sirena] caused chaos, especially among vehicles trying to leave,” he began his story. “Then the shooting started and we had to start running. We are currently hiding, waiting for help,” she added.
The siren was quickly drowned out by gunfire as heavily armed Hamas militants arrived at the scene as the terrorist group began the massacre. Videos show terrified Israelis screaming, running and scrambling into their cars as they try to escape the festival in the northwestern Negev desert, regarding five miles from the town of Ofakim.
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Other videos also circulated of lifeless and half-naked bodies displayed in the back of a Hamas van while militants sat on top of it and jeered following the violent raid titled “pray for Israel”. Among the kidnapped tourists they identified Shani Louk, a famous 30-year-old German tattoo artist.
guerrilla strategy
In the midst of the worst attack in 50 years. Hamas groups entered the territory of the Gaza Strip using delta wings to avoid detection. In a coordinated, multi-pronged attack, Palestinian terrorists took over settlements in the Gaza Strip. There they captured and murdered civilians celebrating a Jewish holiday.
The music festival Shani attended was one of the first places attacked by the terrorist group, with reports suggesting that dozens of people were killed instantly and that the militants took more hostages.
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