{"id":86638,"date":"2023-10-13T21:51:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/?p=86638"},"modified":"2023-10-13T21:51:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:51:50","slug":"israel-shares-footage-of-hamas-shooting-at-cubicles-during-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/world-news\/israel-shares-footage-of-hamas-shooting-at-cubicles-during-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel shares footage of 'Hamas shooting at cubicles during festival'"},"content":{"rendered":"
Distressing footage appears to show Hamas gunmen shooting ‘indiscriminately’ at portaloos during the Nova Music Festival in Re’im on Saturday.<\/p>\n
More than 260 people are understood to have died after armed men descended on the event near the border between Gaza and southern Israel last weekend.<\/p>\n
Hamas took some 150 Israeli, foreign and dual national hostages back to Gaza in the initial attack, Israel has said.<\/p>\n
The IDF shared the footage on social media ahead of an expected ground invasion of Gaza, captioned: ‘This just shows you that Hamas does not care who\u2014they just kill.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
It comes as the Israeli military masses troops on the border with Gaza, telling some one million people to evacuate to the southern part of the besieged territory.<\/p>\n
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The IDF said the footage showed a Hamas gunman shooting at toilets. It was not clear whether anybody was in the portaloos<\/p>\n
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Charred and damaged cars along a desert road after an attack by Hamas militants at the Tribe of Nova Trance music festival near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023<\/p>\n
Israel and Hamas have exchanged fire since the latter launched a surprise attack near the border on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Just after 6:30am, sirens sounded in Israel’s centre and south amid reports of rocket-fire.<\/p>\n
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It was the first direct conflict within Israel’s boundaries since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.<\/p>\n
Armed members of Hamas broke through Israel’s security barrier and raided the Nova Music Festival near Re’im kibbutz.<\/p>\n
Israel claims 150 hostages were taken during the initial assault.<\/p>\n
Festival-goers have described being ‘confused’ by the sound of rockets and fleeing only when they heard gunfire.<\/p>\n
Many became stuck in traffic and fled on foot, hiding in ditches or climbing trees to avoid being targeted.<\/p>\n
Nearby, fighting was reported outside the Re’im army base, the HQ of the IDF’s Gaza Division, which changed hands twice during clashes.<\/p>\n
As the fighting continued through the day, as many as 1,300 casualties – including 247 soldier – were reported.<\/p>\n
Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director of Human Rights Watch, pointed to Hamas ‘shooting civilians en masse, taking hostages, including women and children – undeniably grave abuses of international law, for which there’s no justification.’<\/p>\n
‘Massacring civilians is a war crime and there can be no justification for these reprehensible attacks,’ said Agn\u00e8s Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary-general.<\/p>\n
‘These crimes must be investigated as part of the International Criminal Court’s ongoing investigation into crimes committed by all parties in the current conflict.’<\/p>\n
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Smoke billows following Israeli strikes amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza, October 13, 2023<\/p>\n
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At least 1,200, including at least 326 children, have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced, after Israel launched sustained retaliatory strikes after Saturday’s assault by Hamas<\/p>\n
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Thousands of residential buildings have been destroyed in strikes on Gaza since Saturday<\/p>\n
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Palestinians flee their homes in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2023<\/p>\n
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The UN has urged Israel to rethink the order, calling it ‘impossible’ to orchestrate\u00a0<\/p>\n
Israel retaliated with a ‘complete siege’ of Gaza on Monday and devastating airstrikes, destroying tens of thousands of residential buildings in the Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n
The siege threatens to cut off food, fuel, water and medicine to much of Gaza’s 2.3mn population.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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In recent days, rhetoric has stepped up around an anticipated ground invasion of Gaza, where Hamas is based, as revenge for Saturday’s attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier today, more than one million people living in the north were told to evacuate and head south in the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Rights groups, charities, nations and international bodies have urged Israel to reconsider.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The UN warned that the order would be calamitous, resulting in\u00a0a humanitarian disaster whether people can flee or not.<\/span><\/p>\n ‘The noose around the civilian population in Gaza is tightening. How are 1.1 million people supposed to move across a densely populated warzone in less than 24 hours?’ U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths wrote on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n A statement from the World Health Organisation said: ‘WHO joins the wider United Nations in appealing to Israel to immediately rescind orders for the evacuation of over 1 million people living north of Wadi Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘A mass evacuation would be disastrous\u2014for patients, health workers and other civilians left behind or caught in the mass movement.’\u00a0<\/p>\n More than 80 per cent of Gaza’s population rely on humanitarian aid – which the EU said it would ‘review’ earlier this week – and most lack access to a vehicle.<\/p>\n Much of Gaza’s infrastructure has been damaged, making it difficult to travel by car in any case.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A child carrying an infants car seat evacuates Gaza City following an Israeli warning of increased military operations in the Gaza strip, 13 October 2023<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thousands have died and lost homes and personal possessions since last Saturday<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Palestinians evacuate the north as Israel appears to plan a ground invasion<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rights groups have urged Israel to reconsider as Gazans flee the north, on Friday<\/p>\n The United Nations also today said it had been\u00a0‘collecting and preserving evidence of war crimes committed by all sides’ since the violence started last week.<\/p>\n That evidence could be added to an investigation by the International Criminal Court into possible war crimes committed by Israel and Hamas in past conflicts.<\/p>\n ‘Intentional targeting of civilians and civilian objects without a military necessary reason to do so is a war crime, period,’ said David Crane, an American international law expert and the founding chief prosecutor of the United Nations’ Special Court for Sierra Leone.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘And that’s a standard that both sides are held to under international law.’<\/p>\n U.S. President Joe Biden, at a meeting with Jewish leaders Wednesday, said he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘that it is really important that Israel, with all the anger and frustration and just – I don’t know how to explain it – that exists is that they operate by the rules of war – the rules of war. And there are rules of war.’\u00a0<\/p>\n