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More than 360 people are believed to have been killed at the October 7 music festival in Israel

Politiko 2023-11-18 11:56:48

More than 360 people are believed to have been killed at the October 7 music

Israeli police believe at least 364 people were killed by Hamas gunmen at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on October 7, according to Israeli media.

Earlier, officials had put the death toll at 270.

Israel's Channel 12 News said it had obtained a copy of the first police report on the attack and featured some of the report's findings in its main news bulletin Friday evening.  

Seventeen of the dead were police officers, Israel's Channel 12 News reported, citing the police report. The newspaper said 40 festival attendees were kidnapped and taken to Gaza.

The music festival was the site of the largest number of deaths on October 7, but police say interrogations of captured militants lead them to believe Hamas had no knowledge of the music festival when it launched its attack.

The report clarifies that the first alarm was received at 6:22 a.m., according to Channel 12 News, but it's clear that first responders had no idea of ​​the scale of what was happening. Initial word of the attack suggested that only dozens of terrorists had crossed the perimeter fence from Gaza – the real number is believed to be over a thousand.

The report said Israeli security forces finally closed down the festival site at 3:30 p.m., more than nine hours after the shooting began, according to Israeli media.

It is not clear whether the updated number of people killed at the festival affects the total death toll, which officials have said is about 1,200 people killed.

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