At 7:05 AM on October 7, 2023, sirens at the Nova Music Festival near Kibbutz Re’im bring the event to a halt. Some of the thousand festival-goers leave immediately, their best chance of survival. Others are stuck in traffic or choose to stay. The terrorists arrive, killing and kidnapping the young people, turning the festival grounds into one of Israel’s worst massacre sites. At least 347 Israelis are murdered—on the dance floor, at the bars, in the parking lot, in the portable bathrooms, and a

In Re'im, #Israel, a once vibrant scene at the Nova Festival of trance music transformed into a haunting battleground following a horrific massacre by #Hamas militants. Gunshots echoed through the area on October 12, as Israeli soldiers patrolled what was recently a joyous festival ground. Drone footage captured the aftermath, with scattered personal belongings and harrowing scenes of destruction. The Nova music festival, a gathering of thousands of young people, became the initial target of the