Gaza fighters who launched an attack on a music festival in southern Israel shot and murdered people who were enjoying themselves up close, and then stole their possessions. CNN has confirmed this through a new video taken from a car’s dashboard camera.
The video started being shared on social media on Sunday. It shows terrifying kidnappings from the same event. The video has been closely examined by families who are very worried about their loved ones. These people have been missing since a bunch of attacks happened and Israel declared war on Sunday.
Israeli officials found 260 dead bodies near the location of the Nova festival, which took place outside Re’im. Before this, there was footage of people happily dancing at the party in the desert early on Saturday morning.
According to friends and family members who have seen videos on social media, some people who managed to stay alive are being held captive by the militant group Hamas in Gaza.
The video recorded by a dashboard camera, which has been confirmed by CNN, shows how frightened people were when the terrorists attacked the festival. These militants used extreme violence to stop some people from being able to leave the festival.
The video starts at 9:23 in the morning. About three hours after the first explosions were reported at the Nova festival, based on the timecode.
The video doesn’t have any sound, but a person who fights aggressively is shown shouting and then aiming their powerful gun at a man who is hiding close to the car. We don’t know if the person with the gun shot to scare or if they actually hurt someone. The person they shot is then seen being taken away. We do not know what will happen to him.
In the video, someone else is laying on the ground behind another car. The person starts to move and all of a sudden, another armed person shows up on the screen. They point their weapon at the person, shoot, and then leave. The person laying on the floor doesn’t move anymore.
Another video recorded by the dashboard camera, at 12:09 p. m, shows two fighters coming towards the dead body of the second person. They search through the person’s pockets, and one of them takes something from the person’s body and puts it into his own back pocket.
Less than three minutes later, armed fighters forcefully pulled a woman out of the back seat of the vehicle. She is taken away, and the militants start to open the trunk of another car and pour out the contents of a suitcase onto the ground to be stolen.
The video starts at 12:14 p. mand shows the woman running back into the camera’s view. She is raising her hands and it looks like she is saying hello to the festival area.
Dirt and dust go flying when bullets hit the ground near her. Beside the empty suitcase and open trunk, she hides again. We do not know what happened to her.
The mom and dad of Alexandre Look, a 33-year-old person from Canada, said to the news station CBC that they were talking to him on the phone while he was trying to run away from the gunshots. Look and others went to a safe place without a door to hide from the violent attack, his parents said.
“And then I heard him say to his friends, ‘They’re coming back. There are many of them. And then I only heard many gunshots, many rounds, and then we couldn’t hear anything anymore,” said Look’s mother, Raquel Ohnona Look, to CBC.
Look’s parents said that he died while trying to protect others from the bullets.
He left as a hero, wanting to protect the people he was with, just like a brave warrior. Alex’s father, Alain Haim Look, wrote on Facebook that Alex was a very special and generous person. The world will be different without you. Farewell my child, I care about you and protect us from up in the sky.
“I’m thinking about the family and loved ones of a person named Alexandre Look from Quebec. Unfortunately, he died in a terrorist attack caused by Hamas in Israel,” Legault wrote on a social media platform called X, which was previously known as Twitter. “I feel very sad about how he died. ”
Ricarda Louk saw her daughter Shani lying down in the back of a truck that was going to the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Strip is a small area by the coast where almost 2 million people live in a crowded space.
She talked to her daughter after hearing loud noises and alarms in southern Israel. She called her daughter to check if she was in a safe place. Shani said to her mom that she was at the festival, which took place in a field that didn’t have many places to hide.
Videos shared on social media showed many cars parked by the road near the festival entrance. Some of the cars were on fire, while others had broken windows and open doors.
She was going to her car, but there were soldiers near the cars shooting to stop people from getting to their cars or leaving. “Then they grabbed her,” Ricarda said to CNN.
A mother talks about watching a video of her daughter, who had been taken away, on social media.
The worrying video of her daughter in the back of a truck and someone trying to use Shani’s credit card twice in Gaza after the attack are the only clues she has about where her daughter might be.
In the video, she is not moving. A person with a weapon is sitting close to her with one leg on her waist and holding onto her hair. They cheer, saying “God is great” in Arabic.
Ricarda wants to see her daughter again, but the situation looks really bad.
It seems really negative, but I still feel optimistic. I hope that they don’t use people’s bodies as bargaining tools. I wish that she is still alive somewhere. She said, “Since we don’t have any other things to hope for, I am trying my best to believe. ”
Tomer Shalom said to CNN that he talked to his 20-year-old daughter Noam the last time she called. She sounded scared and was crying, and she called from the festival at around 8:30 a. mHe said he heard the sound of guns in the distance.
Shalom, a paramedic, talked to a friend on the phone at 9:15 a. m, according to Noam. from inside an ambulance, where another friend was getting medical attention for a gunshot injury to their leg. He said that no one has heard from her since then.
It is too difficult to understand or comprehend. Shalom said that it is hard to imagine a situation where kids are going to dance and have fun but they do not return home.
A person named Noa Argamani, who is 25 years old, is asking for assistance from the back of a motorcycle that is being driven by Hamas fighters at the festival location.
Her sad father had a hard time finding words to express how surprised and sad he felt after watching the video. “I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t want to believe it,”
Noa and her boyfriend, Avinatan Or, were at a festival. Some militants took Avinatan away with them.
Noa’s friend from childhood, Shlomit Marciano, was there to support her family when they spoke to CNN. Shlomit said that the text messages they received indicated that their friends were hiding for a long time while the attackers caused chaos at the festival location.
Or Noa’s dad received a text message at approximately 10 in the morning. The couple were okay after almost four hours since the first reports of an attack. Marciano said that other friends sent text messages, pleading for assistance.
After that, we haven’t kept in touch. We think they were taken away at 12 o’clock. They were most likely hiding for around three or four hours and asking for help. They began to hide once they heard about the killings and gunshots. “And then the militants discovered them,” explained Marciano.
He thinks that God exists. He’s hoping that she is fine. And she will return to him, to the family, and to us without any harm. She is the only child they have.