The killing began at 6:30 a.m. when Hamas terrorists launched pre-planned attacks on 30 “breakthrough points” along Israel’s 40-mile border with Gaza.
As a swarm of a hundred drones flew explosives into watchtowers and snipers targeted border guards, explosives were used to blow holes in the barrier.
Bulldozers then widened the holes, allowing trucks and motorcycles to flow through.
Other Hamas militants flew fan-powered paragliders into Israel, while 2,200 rockets rained down on towns and cities in the south and center of the country, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Soon, about 2,000 terrorists had entered Israel, many using body cameras to capture images streamed live on social media.
Today, the Israeli army said it had found the body of Shani Louk, along with those of two other hostages captured that day, in Gaza. Pictured is Shani Louk at the festival before the attack
Wearing blood-stained underwear, she lies face down in the back of a pickup truck as cheering crowds spit on her mutilated remains. Photo Shani Louk
A 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 about 3,000 mostly young people attended the Supernova music festival, a nightly dancing event billed as “a journey of unity and love.”
A particularly gruesome series of images shows terrorists parading the body of festival-goer Shani Louk, 22, an Israeli-German tattoo artist, through Gaza.
Wearing blood-stained underwear, she lies face down in the back of a pickup truck as cheering crowds spit on her mutilated remains.
Today, the Israeli army said it had found Louk’s body, along with those of two other hostages captured that day, in Gaza.
Dashcam footage taken during the festival attack showed a Hamas truck with a heavy machine gun on its back spraying rounds at unarmed partygoers as they fled.
Details of what transpired in the ensuing hours can be pieced together from nearly 60,000 videos found on equipment later seized by Israel, as well as from eyewitness accounts of the atrocities and their aftermath.
In total, about 1,200 people died and 6,900 were injured. The vast majority were civilians, and many were infants and young children. People stare at a poster with images of young people captured or killed by Hamas militants
A total of 364 people were killed during the Supernova Festival, while another 40 were taken hostage
About fifty terrorists stormed the music site, shooting indiscriminately at civilians, throwing grenades and setting tents on fire, while groups of henchmen blocked every exit.
Revelers who tried to flee by car were pulled from their vehicles and shot at close range. Others, trying to run across the desert, were chased and shot by hunters on motorcycles or in trucks.
Many women were targets of horrific rape and sexual assault on both sides of the border.
An onlooker known as ‘Witness S’ saw Hamas militants rape a woman near the site of the festival and mutilate her body with a knife.
“They cut off her breast and threw it on the street,” she said. “They played with it.” The victim was then passed on to another uniformed terrorist. ‘He penetrated her and shot her in the head before he was finished. He didn’t even pick up his pants. He shoots her and ejaculates.”
A total of 364 people were killed during the Supernova festival, while another 40 were taken hostage.
Similar gruesome scenes unfolded in a large number of kibbutzim near the Gaza border, where hundreds of others were killed. Many families were slaughtered for hiding in so-called “safe rooms” that Israeli law required to be built in all new homes.
At the kibbutz Kfar Aza, where 52 people died, survivor Bar Kislev recalled armed gangs roaming the streets shouting, “Everyone out! Jews! Everyone out!’
Kislev added: “They were just euphoric.”
Facebook was used by terrorists attacking Kibbutz Nahal Oz to live stream scenes at Tsachi and Gali Idan’s home
In addition to the dead, another 252 people were taken hostage. Of these, an estimated 128 hostages are in Gaza
In Be’eri, terrorists broke into the home 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, provided written testimony about seeing the bodies of two women in the same kibbutz with their hands and legs tied to a bed. “One was sexually terrorized with a knife in her vagina,” his statement said.
Facebook was used by terrorists attacking Kibbutz Nahal Oz to live-stream scenes at the home of Tsachi and Gali Idan, who witnessed their 18-year-old daughter Maayan shot in front of them.
In another sickening attack caught on film, a terrorist threw a hand grenade into a homely shelter where a father had curled around his two young sons. The blast killed the father and injured the boys.
As the children crawl outside, one wonders, ‘Why am I alive? I think we’re going to die.’
A Hamas gunman stands over them, laughing and drinking Coca-Cola from their refrigerator.
A United Nations report released in early March confirmed that multiple incidents of sexual violence occurred on October 7, exposing victims to rape, gang rape and murder, including at least two incidents in which the bodies of Jewish women were defiled.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies, an American think tank, described the day’s events 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 bound.
“The genitals of both women and men were brutally mutilated, and sometimes weapons were inserted into them,” it was reported. “The terrorists did not stop at shooting, but also cut and mutilated genitals and other body parts with knives.”
In total, about 1,200 people died and 6,900 were injured. The vast majority were civilians, and many were infants and young children.
In addition to the dead, another 252 people were taken hostage. Of those, an estimated 128 hostages are in Gaza, although not all are still alive.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies, an American think tank, described the day’s events as the “third deadliest terrorist attack since data collection began in 1970.”
It is surpassed only by September 11 (2,996 deaths) and the 2014 Camp Speicher massacre in Iraq, in which ISIL terrorists executed 1,700 unarmed cadets at the Tikrit Air Academy.