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Scores feared killed in surprise attack on Israeli music festival
9 October 2023 07:54 BST
Scores of people are feared to have been killed at the site of an Israeli music festival after the surprise attack by Palestinians on Saturday morning.
Thousands of people were attending a morning festival in the Israeli desert, some 5km away from Gaza, when Palestinians breached the boundary and attacked the area.
There has been no official account of what happened or a clear tally of the number of people killed.
Israeli security officials said up to 109 people were believed to have been killed at the festival, according to the New York Times.
The spokesperson of Zaka, an unofficial Israeli emergency response group made up of community volunteers, told Israeli media they have collected 260 bodies from the site of the festival.