Israeli music festival: 260 bodies recovered from site where people fled in hail of bullets
For weeks, excited music-lovers had looked forward to the Supernova festival, held in the desert in southern Israel to coincide with the Jewish festival of Sukkot. Israeli music festival: 260 bodies recovered from site where people fled in hail of bullets “The time has come when the whole family is about to get together again,” organisers wrote on social media before it began. “And what fun it is going to be!” Just hours later, their social media pages are now flooded with desperate people trying to find loved ones, after Palestinian militants stormed the festival and opened fire as part of huge surprise attack on Israel. More than 260 bodies have reportedly been recovered from the festival site, according to rescue agency Zaka. One partygoer, called Ortel, said the first sign that something was wrong was when a siren went off at around dawn, warning of rockets. Eyewitnesses said the rockets were quickly followed by gunshots. “They turned off the ele...