No escape: Terrifying dashcam footage shows Hamas terrorists open fire on driver who somehow makes it through one roadblock…but not the last
- Footage is thought to be show a driver fleeing Saturday’s Supernova festival
- As many as 270 mostly young Israelis were killed by Hamas militants at the event
This is the shocking moment Hamas militants opened fire on an Israeli civilian vehicle as its driver tried to flee the unprecedented assault by the terror group.
The footage was captured on a dashboard camera with a timestamp of 7.39am on Saturday morning, less than two hours after the surprise attack was launched.
By Tuesday, Israeli TV channels said the death toll from the Hamas attack had climbed to 900 Israelis, with at least 2,600 injured, and dozens taken captive.
Among the Israeli dead were 270 mostly young people gunned down at a desert music festival, where some of the hostages were abducted.
It is understood the driver was one of the festival-goers attempting to flee, but was shot as they approached a Hamas roadblock.
This is the shocking moment Hamas militants opened fire on an Israeli civilian vehicle as its driver tried to flee the unprecedented assault by the terror group
The video opens with the car speeding down an otherwise abandoned road in southern Israel. One car is seen pulled over, while another is seen tipped on its side.
As the vehicle rounds a bend in the road, dark-clad figures are seen in the distance, prompting the driver to slow the car down.
As the car decelerates, one of these figures walks out into the middle of the road and another appears from the bushes down the left-hand-side of the tarmac.
It quickly becomes clear that the two men are armed, and as the car steers to go around the first man, he raises a rifle and opens fire on the vehicle.
Somehow, the driver manages initially to avoid the first two Hamas militants, but as the car steers around them, more fighters appear further down the road.
Suddenly, the windscreen shatters as bullets slam into the car. It continues to roll down the road towards what is now in the footage clearly a Hamas roadblock.
At least four more militants can be seen firing on the car, which veers slowly to the left and eventually comes to a halt when it crashes into the back of another vehicle that is pulled over to the side of the road – suggesting the driver has been shot dead.
Two Hamas militants (left) are seen approaching the Israeli civilian vehicle in dashcam footage that was capture at 7.40am on Saturday, around an hour after the Palestinian militant group launched its deadly assault from Gaza
The windscreen on the vehicle is seen cracked after a hail of bullets fired by Hamas militants struck it as it drove down a road, seemingly unwittingly into a Hamas roadblock
Four armed militants are seen blocking the car and firing rifles into the front of the vehicle
In the footage, the car veers slowly to the left and eventually comes to a halt when it crashes into the back of another vehicle that is pulled over to the side of the road – suggesting the driver has been shot dead. Militants (pictured) are then seen checking the car for survivors
A second part to the same dashcam footage shows several heavily-armed militants around the car, seemingly checking to see if there are any survivors in the vehicles that are pulled over on the side of the road.
Others are seen driving up the road in cars and on motorbikes – back in the direction from where the car came.
It was not clear from the footage why the driver slowed down as the armed men approached, but some speculated that they may have initially thought they were members of the Israel Defense Forces (IFD) as opposed to Hamas militants.
By the time they realised who the men were, however, it was too late.
It was also not clear exactly where the attack on the vehicle took place, but given the time stamp of the video, it was likely in southern Israel where on Saturday the Palestinian militant group launched its deadly surprise assault from the Gaza Strip.
Hamas’s attack penetrated the Gaza border fence – long deemed impregnable and guarded by surveillance cameras, drones, patrols and watchtowers – and reached as deep as 10 miles into Israeli territory before turning back.
In a second video that has emerged, also captured on a dashcam, Hamas terrorists are seen attacking Israeli civilians hiding in a bomb shelter.
The shelter was also near the Supernova festival.
One shirtless man is seen being held at gunpoint outside the shelter, being kicked and threatened by a group of militants.
But once the assailants realise people are hiding in the shelter, they throw a grenade inside and shoot at those who attempt to escape.
Pictured: Aerial footage shows the aftermath of an attack on the Supernova music Festival by Palestinian militants, near Kibbutz Reim in the Negev desert in southern Israel on October 8
Several cars – some of them burnt-out – are seen pulled over to the side of the road after people fled the Supernova music festival in southern Israel
Footage shows terrified young Israelis fleeing Hamas militants as they launched a deadly attack on those attending the desert Supernova music festival
A picture taken on October 10, 2023 shows the abandoned site of the weekend attack of the Supernova desert music festival by Palestinian militants near Kibbutz Reim
Abandoned cars and strewn objects are seen in the aftermath of the festival attack
An aerial picture shows the abandoned site of the weekend attack on the Supernova desert music festival by Palestinian militants near Kibbutz Reim in southern Israel on October 10
More than 270 bodies, mostly young people, were strewn across the site of the music festival in a Negev desert kibbutz, where it is believed the driver was coming from. Other revellers were feared to be among the captives taken into Gaza.
The Supernova Festival had been taking place near Kibbutz Re’im.
Survivors described how the gunmen went ‘tree by tree’ executing festival-goers.
Some survivors posted clips of the ordeal to social media, showing how they were forced to hide under bushes and record hushed farewell messages to their loved ones as they watched victims shot dead one by one in front of their eyes.
Many lay still in sheer terror for more than five hours before they heard the sound of armed Israeli rescuers speaking in Hebrew.
Seperate harrowing dashcam footage from the attack showed gunmen executing civilians as they lay in the sand before rifling through their pockets and emptying bags from their cars.
Israeli soldier Ephraim Mordechayev told AFP news agency he witnessed Hamas attackers firing RPG missiles into the crowd. ‘Imagine yourself using a rocket that is meant to fire on houses or tanks, fired on a group of 20 civilians,’ he said.
One of the around 270 victims of the festival attack was revealed to be a young woman by the name of Shani Louk.
A fireball erupts from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023
Smoke rises following Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 10
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Shani, who was in her early 20s and grew up in Israel, would then be stripped naked by the same fighters and paraded through the streets in front of jeering crowds who spat on her motionless body in sickening scenes.
Harrowing video shows her naked body splayed in the back of the truck while surrounded by the four Hamas terrorists who were shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.
Her family, who are desperately hoping that Shani is still alive despite the footage of her body, said she was a pacifist who refused to take up the military service that is mandatory in Israel due to her views.
Further tragic footage showed a smiling Shani dancing enthusiastically at the music festival – moments before she was captured by the terrorists.
Video shows Shani dancing with a group of other revellers while smiling broadly at the camera – a far cry from the harrowing footage that emerged later of her naked body being paraded through the streets by the Hamas terrorists.
Meanwhile, overnight from Monday to Tuesday, Israel kept up its deadly bombardment of Hamas-controlled Gaza Tuesday after the Palestinian militant group threatened to execute some of the around 150 hostages.
Israel already imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip on Monday, cutting off food, water and electricity supplies, and sparking fears that an already dire humanitarian situation will swiftly deteriorate.
Israel has been left reeling by Hamas’s unprecedented ground, air and sea assault, likening it to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
The Israeli army said Tuesday it had ‘more or less restored control’ over the Gaza border after Saturday’s mass breach by Palestinian gunmen.
It said it had recovered the bodies of around 1,500 Hamas militants inside Israel, confirming the scale of Saturday’s assault.
It said it had ‘nearly completed’ evacuation of Israeli communities around the border.
Fireballs repeatedly lit up Gaza City before dawn on Tuesday as explosions sounded and sirens wailed.
Hamas said Monday that Israeli air strikes had killed four of its hostages.
It later said it could start killing them itself.
‘Every targeting of our people without warning will be met with the execution of one of the civilian hostages,’ Hamas armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement.
In a televised speech late Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared Hamas to the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, and said Israel planned to deploy ‘unprecedented force’.
‘Hamas terrorists bound, burned and executed children. They are savages. Hamas is ISIS,’ Netanyahu said.
He also vowed to ‘strengthen other fronts in the north against Hezbollah’, where militants and Israeli forces exchanged fire for a second day.
Hamas launched more rockets as far as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, where missile defence systems fired and air raid sirens blared.
Israel said it had called up 300,000 army reservists for its ‘Swords of Iron’ campaign.
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