Eerie aftermath of Israel festival shooting
(12 Oct 2023) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4458116 ASSOCIATED PRESS Kibbutz Re'im, Israel - 12 October 2023 1. Various of scattered litter 2. Parked cars HEADLINE: Eerie aftermath of Israel festival shooting ANNOTATION: Festival goers, many of them under 30, danced at the sun rose at the Supernova Festival in Israel, close to the border with Gaza. 3. Close of opened suitcase ANNOTATION: Within hours, hundreds would be dead, others taken hostage by Hamas militants. 4. Various of damaged cars ANNOTATION: A survivor spoke of the carnage which unfolded. 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Peleg Horev, bartender at festival: "I feel I owe them, you know, all the people that were here and murdered - I feel I owe them. I'm alive, I stayed alive - I have to tell their story. Each and every one of them, each of the people that are currently in hospitals, some of them are missing, some of them are there. You know, who knows what situation they're living in right now, who knows if they actually are living? Who knows what's happening inside the strip right now for the hostages, the Israeli hostages? I owe them, really." ANNOTATION: For the first time since the attack, journalists were allowed onto the site. 6. Various of litter 7. Pan of Festival site Various of cars with smashed windows. ANNOTATION: Many people tried to escape by car but were shot at roadblocks set up by Hamas militants. 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Peleg Horev, bartender at festival: "We just left the car, we walked inside of the gorge, you know, to prevent or at least make it hard for the cars of the terrorists to go inside and follow us. All of this time, you're hearing gunshots and screaming from afar, and... we saw a police officer after a few minutes walking inside of that gorge. We ask him - listen, what's happening? Where is your commander. He told us his commander and his whole squad is here fighting with terrorists, we just go as far as we can as fast as we can. And that's what we did. And we walked for around three hours, like 11 or 12 kilometers up until Moshav Patish. And that's the first time we felt confidence, you know, a little bit of safety. We didn't know anything, you know, you have friends here that you have no connection whatsoever. You don't have connection in your phone. You don't know nothing, what's happening." 9. Close of blood-soaked mattress edge 10. Mid of abandoned cars 11. Soldiers walking ANNOTATION: The death toll from the massacre may still rise as Israeli security forces search the area. STORYLINE: Israel’s military allowed journalists on Thursday into the site where Hamas militants killed 260 people at a music festival near kibbutz Re'im. One of the survivors of the massacre, Peleg Horev, who worked at the festival as a bartender, said he was only able to survive because his car was blocked and he had to escape on foot. Most of the attendees trying to escape in their cars were shot at roadblocks set up by Hamas militants. "We just left the car, we walked inside of the gorge, you know, to prevent or at least make it hard for the cars of the terrorists to go inside and follow us," he remembers, adding that his party walked for three hours before feeling safer. Peleg said he felt an obligation to those who perished and were held captive to tell their stories. AP video by Alon Bernstein =========================================================== Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel +44(0)2074827482 Email: [email protected]. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
