The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas denounced this Sunday that it was Israel’s “military, security and intelligence failures” that caused the massacre at the Nova electronic music festival on October 7, reaffirming that it was Israeli attack helicopters that bombed the youth attending the event attended. .

This was indicated by Hamas officials at a press conference in Beirut, where they approved the investigations published this Sunday by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which stated that the death of 360 people at the festival on the day of the Hamas attack on the territory of the Israeli attack that unleashed the current escalation of war was partly caused by a bombardment by the Israeli army.

“It was the Apache helicopters that bombed the concert participants. The charred bodies were the result of missiles from a Zionist plane,” the spokespersons said, before noting that “this confirms beyond any doubt that the occupiers (Israel), faced with the failure of their security, intelligence services and militias on October 7 , committed a massacre against those who attended the event.”

These bombings, according to Hamas, are the result of the “confusion and state of chaos that prevails” among the Israeli political leadership.

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In this sense, Hamas has asked American and European countries that support Israel in its “right to defense” to abandon this support and “apologize,” while calling for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. to “immediately end” the “aggression against Gaza.”

In addition, they asked the Arab League and the Islamic Cooperation Council to open the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt and immediately set up humanitarian corridors, as well as the establishment of a special court at the United Nations “to try the leaders of the occupation” . (Israel) and that they are responsible for the crimes they commit against our people.”

Haaretz published an investigation this Sunday showing that the Palestinian attackers who attacked Israeli territory were unaware of the existence of that music festival in a desert area near Gaza and that a helicopter gunship had killed several young people while shooting at the militants.

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“The Israeli security establishment has mounting evidence to believe that the Hamas terrorists who committed the October 7 massacre had no prior knowledge of the Nova music festival held next to Kibbutz Reim and decided to attack spontaneously,” it begins article. newspaper Haaretz based on investigations and interviews with various Israeli security sources.

According to the latest Israeli police estimates, 364 people were killed at the festival, compared to an estimated 260 deaths on the first day.

This is the largest massacre committed by Hamas that day, when it destroyed about two dozen kibbutzim and small communities near the Strip, killing more than 1,200 people and kidnapping about 240.

“Senior security officials estimate that Hamas learned about the party through information collected simultaneously by drones and by the militiamen who flew in on paragliders,” Haaretz reports.

Moreover, according to police sources, the party would initially take place on Thursday and Friday, October 5 and 6; and that at the last minute request of the organizers, only one extra day was added, Saturday, October 7, due to the large influx of audiences, approximately 4,400 people.

“This last-minute change reinforces the view that Hamas was not aware of the event,” the Haaretz article said. (JO)