The carnage began at 6:30 a.m., when Hamas terrorists launched pre-planned attacks on 30 “breakpoints” along Israel’s 40-mile border with Gaza.
As a swarm of 100 drones launched explosives at guard towers and snipers targeted border guards, explosives were used to blow holes in the barrier.
Then, the bulldozers widened the spaces so that trucks and motorcycles could pass through.
Other Hamas militants flew fan-powered paragliders toward Israel, as 2,200 rockets rained down on towns and cities in the south and center of the country, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Some 2,000 terrorists soon entered Israel, many of them using body cameras to capture footage broadcast live on social media.
Today, the Israeli military said it had found Shani Louk’s body, along with those of two other hostages captured that day, in Gaza. In the photo, Shani Louk at the festival before the attack.
In blood-stained underwear, she lies face down in the back of a van as a cheering crowd spits on her mutilated remains. Image Shani Louk
One particularly gruesome series of images shows terrorists parading the body of festival-goer Shani Louk, 22, an Israeli-German tattoo artist, through Gaza.
The bloodiest events took place in the Negev Desert, where some 3,000 people, mostly young people, were attending the Supernova music festival, an all-night dance event billed as “a journey of unity and love.” “.
One particularly gruesome series of images shows terrorists parading the body of festival-goer Shani Louk, 22, an Israeli-German tattoo artist, through Gaza.
In blood-stained underwear, she lies face down in the back of a van as a cheering crowd spits on her mutilated remains.
Today, the Israeli military said it had found Louk’s body, along with those of two other hostages captured that day, in Gaza.
Dashboard camera footage taken during the festival attack showed a Hamas truck with a heavy machine gun mounted on its rear firing bullets at unarmed partygoers as they fled.
Details of what happened over the next few hours can be pieced together from nearly 60,000 videos found on equipment later confiscated by Israel, as well as eyewitness accounts of the atrocities and their aftermath.
In total, approximately 1,200 people were killed and 6,900 injured. The vast majority were civilians and many were babies and small children. People stare at a poster with photographs of young men captured or killed by Hamas militants.
A total of 364 people died at the Supernova festival, while another 40 were taken hostage
About 50 terrorists broke into the music venue, shot indiscriminately at civilians, threw grenades and set tents on fire, while groups of accomplices blocked all exit routes.
Revelers trying to flee by car were pulled from their vehicles and shot at point-blank range. Others, who tried to run across the desert, were chased and shot by fighters on motorcycles or trucks.
Many women were subjected to horrific rape and sexual assault on both sides of the border.
A spectator, known as ‘Witness S’, saw Hamas militants gang rape a woman near the festival site and mutilate her body with a knife.
“They cut his chest and threw him on the street,” he said. “They were playing with him.” The victim was then handed over to another uniformed terrorist. He entered her and shot her in the head before finishing. He didn’t even pull up his pants. He shoots her and ejaculates.
In total 364 people died at the Supernova festival and another 40 were taken hostage.
Equally gruesome scenes unfolded at a series of kibbutzim near the Gaza border, where hundreds more died. Many families were massacred while taking refuge in so-called “safe rooms” which, according to Israeli law, must be built in all new houses.
At kibbutz Kfar Aza, where 52 people died, survivor Bar Kislev recalled how armed gangs roamed the streets shouting: ‘Everyone out! Jews! Everybody out!’
Kislev added: “They were just elated.”
Facebook was used by terrorists who attacked the Nahal Oz kibbutz to livestream scenes at Tsachi and Gali Idan’s home.
In addition to the dead, another 252 people were taken hostage. Of them, an estimated 128 hostages remain in Gaza.
In Be’eri, terrorists broke into the house of 80-year-old Avlum Mils and tortured him to death, removing the fingers of his left hand one by one.
Nachman Dyksztejna, who helped clean up after the attack, has provided written testimony of seeing the bodies of two women in the same kibbutz with their hands and legs tied to a bed. “One of her was sexually terrorized with a knife stuck in her vagina,” his statement said.
Facebook was used by the terrorists who attacked the Nahal Oz kibbutz to livestream scenes at the home of Tsachi and Gali Idan, who witnessed the shooting of their 18-year-old daughter Maayan in front of them.
In another sickening attack chronicled on film, a terrorist threw a hand grenade into a domestic shelter where a father was huddled with his two young children. The explosion killed the father and injured the children.
As the children crawl out, one asks, ‘Why am I alive? I think we’re going to die.’
A Hamas gunman stands next to them, laughing, drinking Coca-Cola from his refrigerator.
A United Nations report released in early March confirmed that multiple incidents of sexual violence occurred on October 7, with victims subjected to rape, gang rape and murder, including at least two incidents in which the corpses of Jewish women They were desecrated.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies, an American think tank, describes the events of that day as the “third-deadliest terrorist attack since data collection began in 1970.” In the photo, Shani Louk
The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel says many of the bodies of sex crime victims were found bound and chained.
“The genitals of both women and men were brutally mutilated and, at times, weapons were inserted,” it was reported. “The terrorists did not limit themselves to shooting, they also cut and mutilated sexual organs and other body parts with knives.”
In total, approximately 1,200 people were killed and 6,900 injured. The vast majority were civilians and many were babies and small children.
In addition to the dead, another 252 people were taken hostage. Of those, an estimated 128 hostages remain in Gaza, although not all are still alive.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies, an American think tank, describes the events of that day as the “third-deadliest terrorist attack since data collection began in 1970.”
It is second only to 9/11 (2,996 deaths) and the Camp Speicher massacre in Iraq in 2014, in which ISIL terrorists executed 1,700 unarmed cadets at the Tikrit Air Academy.