Israeli rescue workers say more than 200 people were killed and an unspecified number were abducted when Hamas fighters stormed a music festival close to the Gaza Strip, which was in full swing in the early hours of Saturday when the Palestinian militant group launched its biggest attack on Israel in decades.
Thousands of revellers had gathered at the outdoor Tribe of Nova music festival in the Negev desert, a few kilometres from Israel’s militarised border with Gaza, for what was meant to be an all-night dance party coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
