'Massacred in cold blood': The nightmare of an Israeli music festival


As an Israeli volunteer collecting corpses, Moti Bukzin has worked at the site of horrific disasters for decades, but is now armed with Hamas.

Nothing could have prepared us for the carnage the group unleashed.A desert music festival will be held on Saturday.

 "It turns out things could be much worse," he said. He was one of the first responders to the massacre at the Supernova festival in a kibbutz near Gaza, where 270 drunk people were shot and burned in their cars. did. 


Most of them were young people in party costumes who danced all night under the stars. Shortly after the sun rose over the Negev desert on the Jewish Sabbath, rockets began shooting through the sky from the nearby Gaza Strip, survivors said. The drunk people were stunned by what they saw next. 

Islamic extremists armed with assault rifles come at high speeds on trucks, motorcycles, and even electric paragliders. He described the situation as follows: ``They were shot as they tried to escape and fell into a ditch on the side of the road.'' The militants had time to act in an organized manner. It was obvious. Bokjin told AFP. 

"It took a long time for the security forces to arrive. Some of the cars were burned down with people still inside." This suggests that the killers ``randomly sprayed bullets, "I wasn't expecting it to hit," he said. Panicked Rush The scale of Saturday's massive, multi-pronged surprise attack from Gaza shocked Israel, making it the worst attack in the country's 75-year history.  

Hamas fighters also invaded nearby Israeli towns and kibbutzim, shooting civilians. Hamas took at least 100 hostages, including several festival participants, and abducted them to Gaza, some of whom were paraded earlier in front of cheering crowds. It was an hour after sunrise when her mother, Ahuva Maisel, heard from her 21-year-old daughter Addi, who was last at the festival. "That was the last call where I heard a lot of noise, gunfire, bombings. It was chaos, complete chaos," she told reporters from her home in Karnei Shomron, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. 

He told the group. Ms. Maisel said as she waited for news of her daughter, ``We are just as helpless as her parents.'' ``This is truly unimaginable.'' So many injured, so many dead, so many missing." Aerial photos of the burnt-out festival site show the main tent still standing and dozens of cars. ``There were cars on the side of the road, one overturned and one on its side.

'' There were two or three bodies in each car, or just one person had been shot,'' Bukzin said. Zaka, his religious charity, continues to travel to other parts of southern Israel, recovering bodies in accordance with Jewish law. "It's going to be a tough day," he said seriously. 

``There was a body in the car'' Ephraim Mordechayev, 23, one of the survivors of the festival attack, said it was him.


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