At the very least 260 our bodies have been discovered after Hamas focused a music competition in Israel as a part of its incursion, rescuers have mentioned.
These killed on the Supernova competition close to Re’im in southern Israel are amongst 700 dead throughout the nation up to now.
The quantity {dead} on the music occasion within the desert area of Negev was given by the Israeli rescue service Zika on Sunday.
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Social media footage reveals folks dancing late into Friday, earlier than the assault within the early hours of Saturday.
Persons are then seen operating via an open area with gunshots firing within the background in separate clip.
One other video reveals a younger girl being pressured onto a motorcycle as she pleads with the 2 males taking her: “Please do not kill me.”
She can be seen in separate footage at an unknown location sitting down and consuming water.
Yakov Argamani, father of the 25-year-old pupil filmed being taken
Her father Yakov Argamani confirmed the lady within the footage is his daughter 25-year-old pupil Noa Argamani.
Mr Argamani spoke to native media, saying via tears: “What can I say? All my life, since she was born, I attempted to guard her, and hug her, and help her, and love her.
“And right here at this troublesome second, even to cheer her up, I could not supply her a hand.”
Social media footage of burned out automobiles alongside a highway close to the competition website
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The faces of the folks lacking after the assault
After breaching the closely guarded border early on Saturday, Hamas militants have taken no less than 100 Israelis hostage.
The Israeli US embassy mentioned ladies and kids have been amongst these captured and that a number of hostage conditions are nonetheless “ongoing”.
Each troopers and civilians have been taken, with some being taken again over the border into Gaza – and others paraded via the streets.
At a information convention held by relations of individuals nonetheless lacking, mother and father instructed of harrowing cellphone calls they obtained from their kids.
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‘Mummy, they shot at us’
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In response to Israeli officers, 1,590 folks have been left injured because the incursion started on Saturday.
In the meantime in Gaza, 413 Palestinians have been confirmed {dead} and a couple of,300 injured, in keeping with the well being ministry.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed these nonetheless in Gaza to “depart now” as he threatened to show it “into rubble” in response to the weekend’s assaults.