Brutal. Some of what youll see tonight is tough to watch, but it is for now, the most complete look at what took place that weve reported so far. It was 6 00 a. M. On saturday morning, october 7th. The sun was rising over southern israel. I was standing with a friend, and we looked together at the sunrise. I told her, look how beautiful she is. What a magical sunrise. What a magical day. Thousands of young people had been partying through the night at the super nova festival, a trans music rave. I made a video on my social of minutes before the attack. And the crowd goes crazy raving. I have been at a lot of festivals. One of the best ones. So, before the attack. After analyzing dozens of videos. They started shooting us. And interviewing survivors, cnn has been able to piece together how the hamas Terror Attack unfolded, 70 miles south of tel aviv near raim about 3. 3 miles near israels border with g gaza. Festival organizers had been setting it up for days. Usually Dance Festivals yo
Terror attack on israel was at the Supernova Festival, a dance party just 3. 3 miles away from the border with gaza. More than 3,000, mostly young people, had gathered in an open field. It became a killing field. The site of the single biggest loss of civilian life in israels history. Over the course of about six hours terrorists killed more than 260 people there. Many were slaughtered at the site. Others were ambushed or hunted down as they tried to flee. We still dont know how many party goers were kidnapped and how many of those people may still be alive. Being held somewhere in gaza. Hamas has posted Hostage Videos online and desperate Family Members in israel have resorted to scrolling through jihadist videos searching for videos of their loved ones. Only now the story of what happened at the supernova Music Festival coming into focus. Using video from multiple sources and eyewitness accounts from survivors weve been able to document how coordinated this attack was and just how br
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43 minutes past the hour. new information that an israeli tank fired at a hamas military post in gaza after a border fence was breached. this is the first shot after a shaky cease-fire went into place between israel and gaza. this week there s been an uptick in violence after an israeli soldier was shot during protests along the fence separating israel and gaza. s ian lee cnn s ian lee is live from gaza city. what are you seeing and learning this morning? reporter: good morning. you know, today is calmer than yesterday. yesterday when you talked to everyone, war office everyone s lips. people believed that the situation wthe situation was going to spiral out of control especially after the israeli soldier was killed by the sniper in gaza. then you had the wide-scale bombing campaign targeting dozens of happen as infrastructure, weapons depots, command and control basically