Festival-goers flee as Hamas launches raid
The first signs of violence appeared around 6 a.m. Saturday when the rave began. a resting phase as rockets streaked across the morning sky.
“Everyone just ran in all directions. Nobody knew where to go,” Eliav Klein told NBC.
“My friend had to jump off a 25-foot cliff while running from terrorists to save his life.”
Searching signs of life
ZAKA said it had removed about 260 bodies from the festival, and that number was expected to rise. It is unclear how many of these bodies are already included in Israel's total losses.
Meanwhile, worried families have undergone DNA testing to help authorities identify the discovered human remains.
While waiting to have her sample collected at an office near Israel's Bun Gurion Airport, Anya Bonget told The Telegraph the last time she heard from her daughter Sophia.
Ms. Bonje said she heard screams in the background of their last phone call.
“Mom, they are killing us,” was her response. “They're shooting at us.”
Her daughter then hung up, but half an hour later she sent a message saying she was “lucky to have the best parents in the world.”
Families also continued to view numerous TikTok and Instagram videos from the day of the attack, desperate to see their children and any sign that they were still alive.
Ricarda Luk saw a video of her daughter's naked body being marched through the streets of Gaza, but remained hopeful that 23-year-old Shani had survived.
Shani Luk's family recognized her in a disturbing video circulating online
The family of another missing partygoer, British Israeli Jake Marlow, said they tried to call his phone and left him voicemails.
His mother, Lisa, told Jewish News: “He was doing security at this rave [on Saturday] and called me at 4:30 in the morning to say all these rockets were flying over him.
/>“Then, around 5:30 am, he wrote: “The signal is very bad, everything is ok, I will keep you posted, I promise,” and that he loves me.”
Daniel Aboudi said he received a voice recording of Mr Marlow, a long-time friend, at 9am on Saturday.
“It said: 'Something's happening around Gaza, they're coming from there, we're trying to evacuate everyone.' I’m on a quad [quad bike] and we’re telling everyone to get out,” Mr. Aboudi told The Jewish Chronicle.
“Even in the last minutes of this event, when there were signals of approaching missiles and approaching terrorists, he tried to help people evacuate.
«It's a testament to his character that he gave the shirt off his back to help others.»
Friend of Jake Marlowe (pictured) said the family was «numb.» No. 34; with despair
French Israeli Idor Nagar said he has reason to believe that his wife Celine survived an escape attempt from the party massacre. Mr. Nagar found his wife's car that had been shot at, but there was no blood in it.
Mr Nagar, holding the couple's six-month-old daughter, appeared on French television channel BFM-TV and asked authorities to do everything possible to confirm whether his wife had been captured by Hamas.
Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk said on Sunday that the terrorist group was holding about 130 Israeli hostages, including senior army officials, according to a report by the Palestinian news agency Al-Hadat.
By Monday morning, Israel was At least 700 people have been killed, and the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 400.
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