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
But it is just, you know, just an awful none of us have ever been in a position of reporting some of the things were seeing right now. And it is just a hard assignment. Colleagues are Bearing Witness for sure. Wolf, thank you so much. Well see you in the situation. Cnn news central starts right now. Were tracking major developments on day seven of fighting in the middle east. Im Brianna Keilar In Washington with Boris Sanchez. We have Anderson Cooper on scene in israel. We do have Breaking News. Israeli troops conducting raids inside gaza, they have done this, the Israel Defense forces saying they targeted terror cells and searched for hostages here in the past day. Hamas is believed to have up to 150 hostages inside of gaza, including some u. S. Citizens. Last hour President Biden spoke with the families of 14 americans who are still unaccounted for since the weekend attacks. Earlier today, the idf dropped flyers on gaza. Youre seeing them there on the screen. The flyers tell people i
Urgent needs that need to be met. First, of course, potentially more aid for israel. Phil. Poppy. Lauren fox, thank you. And cnn this morning continues right now. This is cnn Breaking News. It is the top of the hour. We continue to follow all of the Breaking News out of israel and gaza. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. 8 00 a. M. Here on the east coast. 3 00 p. M. In tel aviv where defense secretary lloyd austin is on the ground. You heard him speaking as this war between israel and hamas intensifies with up to 150 hostages, including americans, believed held in gaza. We will continue to coordinate closely with israel to help secure the release of the innocent men, women, and children in the clutches of hamas. Including american citizens. Now, this is no time for neutrality or for false equivalence or for excuses for the inexcusable. There is never any justification for terrorism. This Morning Hamas is claiming that israels bombardment of gaza killed 13 hostages but the
is an ininvasion whihich may ma hamas s more populular. nothihing would b be a greae setback toto hamas thahan after this an israeli-saudi normalization. that is the strategic prize for israel. diplomatic and political progress in the middle east hahe often comeme in the afaftermath wars. when i was a young reporter it would have been very difficult to imagine that the spanish government and bask extremists could sit down together and work things out. that happened. it would have been very difficult to imagine n northern irelanand beining at peacece. and that h happened. i have thihis little rayay of h that it has happened elsewhere in the world. maybe somehow that can happen in gaza as well. in the days and weeks ahead there is so much at stake here and cnn will be here to cover it all. thanks for watching the whole story. i ll see you next sunday. [music playing] anderson cooper: welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper in tel aviv. one of the worst scenes