A British citizen is among dozens of festival attendees who are missing, kidnapped or presumed dead

The Israeli rescue service Zaka says its paramedics removed more than 260 bodies from a music festival that came under attack by Hamas militants.

The total figure of bodies found is expected to be higher, as other paramedic teams were also working in the area and Zaka added that the bodies “haven’t all been collected yet”.

Early on Saturday morning, Hamas targeted Nova music festival, a techno rave in the desert near the border with Gaza.

Videos shared on social media and by Israeli news outlets showed dozens of festival-goers running through an open field as gunshots rang out. Many hid in nearby fruit orchards or were gunned down as they fled.

  • thoro@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    “I used to have support for the Native Americans, but then a tribe massacred an outpost on the land that was slowly being carved from them by colonizers. Now I’ve lost all goodwill for their struggle”

    The indigenous, oppressed peoples proceed to get wiped out and the colonizing states take over the entire land mass

    This type of violence does not need to celebrated. It should be mourned as tragic. Its perpetrators condemned.

    But so many are applying fairness or rules to a conflict that has neither.

    If you create the conditions for war and terrorism, do not be surprised when war and terrorism come.

  • BB69@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Wholesale slaughter of innocents? What a way to show Palestinians are the ones we should support.

    • there1snospoon@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I had been pretty much on the Palestinian side of the conflict for some time.

      This attack has absolutely burnt any goodwill I had for the Palestinian cause. If Mexico attacked America in this manner, we would likely own everything south of the Gulf of California.

      I cannot fathom what Hamas thought would come of this.

      • NAXLAB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        “Palestine” is not the one that did this. Hamas is a terrorist group, and their actions do not justify the fact that the Israeli government operates an apartheid state where people are given rights, status, and property on the basis of race, and also participates in the slaughter of innocent people.

        This isn’t a “whoever’s worse should lose” situation. Israel commits human rights violations and Hamas is a terrorist group.

        • BB69@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Hamas is the governing body of Palestine.

          It was Palestine who did this.

          • Jaderick@lemmy.world
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            2 years ago

            By this logic all Iranians support their current Islamist government, which everyone and their mother knows to not be true.