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Hamas didn’t know

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An Israeli police investigation has

found that an IDF helicopter firing at
Hamas fighters at the desert rave site
also hit civilians, Haaretz reports. There
is also a "growing assessment" that
Hamas didn't know about the desert
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‫במערכת הביטחון מעריכים כי המחבלים לא ידעו‬
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The police probe also revealed that an Israeli |

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killing festival participants, some of whom
were from other nationalities.
“The event was attended, according to our
estimate, by some 4,400 people, the large
majority of whom managed to flee following
the decision to disperse the event made
four minutes after the rocket attack,” a
senior police source said.
READ: Israel men accused of stealing from
Israelis who were killed at music festival
A separate report by Israeli broadcaster
Channel 12 said that investigators could not
find maps on the bodies of dead resistance
fighters linked to the outdoor event,
whereas in the cases of other attacks that
day, they carried maps specifying their
targets.
The Palestinian resistance reportedly only
realised a major event was happening in the
area after the police began dispersing
partygoers because of the wider operation
and subsequently headed toward it.
The development comes as Israel revised
the official death toll of the 7 October
attacks, lowering the figure to about 1,200
people, compared to the 1,400 originally
cited. Israeli government spokesperson
Mark Regev was challenged on the Mehdi
Hasan Show regarding the false claims.
“We understood that we’d overestimated, we
made a mistake. There were actually bodies
that were so badly burnt we thought they |

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apparently they were 
Hamas terrorists,” he said. 
The occupation state has so far failed to

explain how Palestinian resistance fighters
could have carried out a large scale attack
that led to hundreds of people burned
beyond recognition, in addition to parked
vehicles, especially armed with just light
weapons.
In an interview with a radio programme on
state broadcaster Kan, one Israeli witness,
Yasmin Porat exposed the occupation
forces’ role in the deaths of Israeli citizens,
saying: “They eliminated everyone, including
the hostages. There was very, very heavy
crossfire and even tank shelling.”
READ: 7 October testimonies strike major
blow to Israeli narrative
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12/4/23, 10:49 PM Hamas didn’t know about music festival in advance says Israel police – Middle East Monitor

ISRAEL, MIDDLE EAST, NEWS, PALESTINE

Hamas didn’t know

Volunteers from the community emergency response team, Zaka searching

Operation Al-Aqsa Flood had no prior

the rave, which took place next to Kibbutz Over

364 people dead and was one of the events

Gaza, which has so far claimed the lives of |

based on terrorist interrogations and the Email Add

An Israeli police investigation has

8:32 PM · Nov 18, 2023

15K Reply Share

Read 586 replies

The police probe also revealed that an Israeli |

that were so badly burnt we thought they |

The occupation state has so far failed to

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