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.

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    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.

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      1 year 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.

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        1 year ago

        Hamas is the governing body of Palestine.

        It was Palestine who did this.

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          Strictly speaking, it’s the governing body of Gaza, which hasn’t held elections in well over a decade. The West Bank is governed by the party Fatah, which is much less militant.

          There is, however, the awkward truth that the West Bank has also not held elections in a long time, precisely because Hamas would probably win them.

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            1 year ago

            At last count, Hamas had something like a 75 percent approval rating in Gaza.

            The support among all Palestinians is just over 50 percent.

            Only 14 percent support the opposition party.