The Nova music festival was a trance music festival that took place on October 6 and 7, 2023, in Re'im in southern Israel, and was the site of a brutal Hamas massacre as part of the October 7 massacre.
The festival saw around 3,500 people attend, but in the end, 364 people were murdered by Hamas terrorists, and dozens of others captured and taken back to Gaza as hostages.
The incident was one of the worst massacres of civilians in Israeli history, and was among the most brutal incidents to occur on October 7.
The military revealed that the IDF and Shin Bet targeted 11 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who invaded the country and participated in the massacre on October 7.
Israeli troops, as well as the kibbutz’s security squad and armed civilians, prevented more terrorists from invading Re’im.
#NOVA, directed by Dan Pe’er, is composed of video and audio clips from the Nova festival, taken by victims, survivors, and the terrorists.
Maybe there’s no new information that will enable the families of the October 7 victims to move on and cope with their massive losses.
Over 400 partygoers were essentially left defenseless once Hamas noticed their presence in the Re'im field areas near Gaza's border.
Of the 378 Israelis killed, 344 were civilians • Hamas took 44 hostage from music festival, 17 remain in Gaza including 11 still among living
The Hostage Families Forum stated that the investigation was “superficial,” with facts that were “inaccurate at best, lies at worst.”
After 537 days in captivity, Rivka Bohbot breaks her silence following Hamas' release of a video showing her husband Elkana.
The investigation will act as an operational review to learn from the attack and response.
Bohbot, 35, and Ohana, 24, were both kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival on October 7.
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