The Re'im Music Festival Massacre: A Carefully Planned Slaughter

On the 7th of October, at 6:35am, a day that was supposed to be a day of fun and joy became a living nightmare for thousands of people.  At that time, Hamas began the first stage of what was to become a genocidal massacre that lasted for hours.  Located near the Re'im Kibbutz near the Gaza Strip, the music festival was attended by 3,000-5,000 attendees.  Before the festivities went underway, the air raid sirens sent off around 6:35am, and rockets began to be fired from Gaza.  The attendees began seeking shelter as they were all to familiar with rocket attacks in the past, but this time, Hamas had something far more sinister in mind.   

As Israeli's moved to nearby bomb shelters, Hamas militants arrived, beginning their attack.  Israelis reported that at least 50 gunmen carried out the initial attack, arriving in vans, motorcycles, & paragliders, spraying gunfire at everywhere.  

The Militants Assault

Military analysts who studied the aftermath of the attack discovered that the Hamas terrorists launched a three-pronged attack.  Gunmen attacked the festival while two other groups of gunmen blocked off both of the main streets that led out of the festival, firing into Israeli cars as concert attendees tried to flee.  The only way out for the concert attendees was to flee across an open field, leaving them vulnerable to the gunmen.  


Hamas Throws Grenades into Bomb Shelters
Nearby bomb shelters ended up becoming death traps.  Israeli's who fled into bomb shelters to escape the barrage of rockets were pinned inside by Hamas gunmen, who proceeded to throw grenades into the shelters (Link to Video).  The textbook military precision along with the timing of the attacks illustrates that these militants had been planning this massacre for quite some time.  They knew to allow the rockets to be fired first so they could then attack the Israelis in their bomb shelters, and they knew exactly where these shelters were located.  


Yaniv, an Israeli emergency responder described the scene as a massacre.  In a statement to BBC he said "I've never seen anything like it in my life.  It was a planned ambush.  As people came out of emergency exits, squads of terrorists were waiting for them there and just started picking them off.  They had intelligence information."  These men knew exactly what they were doing, they knew to target this festival, and they targeted it in a manner so that they could inflict as many causalities as possible.  This shows just how evil the ideology of Hamas is, and people must come to realize that if Hamas had the means, they would ensure that all the Jews of Israel met the same fate as those who died in this massacre.

Sources:

Gillet, Francesca & Alice Cuddy.  "Israeli Music Festival: 260 Bodies Recovered from Site where People Fled in Hail of Bullets."  BBC.  Oct. 09, 2023.  Accessed from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67047034.




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