16 minutes agoHeavy view: How Hamas Massacre Spreaded on Social Networks
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(3 years ago)Recent videos, carried out before the start of the horror, show that it was a festival, like any other festival with young people dancing at dawn. According to some stories, there were about 4,000 people present, and the images appeared to be mostly under 30-year-olds, the BBC wrote on Tuesday. Ticket holders were told [...]
Recent videos, carried out before the start of the horror, show that it was a festival, like any other festival with young people dancing at dawn.
According to some stories, there were about 4,000 people present, and the images appeared to be mostly under 30-year-olds, the BBC wrote on Tuesday.
Ticket holders were told to go to a country north of Reyhim, about six miles [6 km] east of Gaza. Party organisers promised “unity and love guidance”.
And there are really many happy faces to be seen in a busy video at 7:22, in which festival participants show up laughing and dancing in the poor morning light. But over their heads, small black clouds signal the beginning of approaching terror. In the next few hours, Hamas would launch thousands of missiles to Israel.
Some of the festivalgoers can be seen on the same images when they saw dark blinds above their heads. Others are inconsiderate and continue dancing. In another video posted shortly thereafter, music was banned. People had begun to evacuate from the festival site, some under panic, and others were fleeing.
“They were everywhere”
It is unclear how many minutes have passed between the launch of missiles and the arrival of armed persons, but eyewitness evidence says everything happened very quickly.
There were rockets, then they started firing. They were coming from different directions and they were getting heavier”, declared Gilad Carplus, 31, who worked as massage therapist at the festival.
I saw people coming down. As soon as we saw this, we jumped into the jeep and left the field of”.
A post distributed in the Instagram by a woman showed the moment when the missiles “are remanded” from heaven and people are disappearing from the face of the earth.
We went down the main street, but a minute later someone started shouting that terrorists were shooting at”, wrote an Instagram user. But after two minutes, in the other direction, we realized there are more terrorists there. ”
It is unlikely to know whether militants knew the festival was taking place in that country, but according to the BBC, they had surely heard music ringing through the quiet village.
Gili Yoskovich, while talking about his experience, said militants “were everywhere with automatic weapons”, adding that guns were being distributed with vans.
The confessions, according to the BBC, suggest the camp was completely surrounded, including with roads inside and outside.
Festival participants ran in all directions, but some were still within the range of the armed.
Gilad, who served in the Israelite army, has said that he had the impression that roads would be blocked.
I'm sure a lot of people were killed in those streets. We drove into the field and tried to hide from them. Then we got a little deeper into the fields and then they started shooting sniper rifles from different places and also with heavy artillery”, he added.
“Sacre captured in camera”
As they were trying to escape, the festival participants saw many bodies being held hostage.
Camera footage shows three armed men taking part in the massacre.
There is a fixed body lying there and leaning near a car.
On the other hand, a militant armed with an automatic weapon is later seen ordering a bleeding man to leave before he catches it from the back of his shirt and hides it from the camera.
Whether he survived is unknown.
A few seconds later, another militant is seen scurrying into the environment where the festival has been held and headshots the body that remained lying on the wounds.
In a later part of the footage, a group of men, one of them armed, appear to be present to plunder. They stand beside the bodies and check near parked cars around.
The BBC wrote that it analyzed the images and published images of armed persons, which are widely observed via software “Amazon Recognition”.
In the entire location of the festival, such scenes were repeated over and over again. Over 260 people are said to have been taken hostage, according to the rescue agency Zaka.
Mobile - phone images and fears reveal the degree of Hamas ' attack on the roads leading up to cars that had not been able to cross the fury of bullets. The festival had become a war zone, and for some, the nightmare continues.
Hamas claims he has taken some hostages from the country, while Israeli authorities have said about 100 people from around the country are being held inside Gaza.
