{"id":173788,"date":"2023-10-08T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/hamas-gunmen-open-fire-on-hundreds-at-music-festival-in-southern-israel"},"modified":"2023-10-08T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T19:29:10","slug":"hamas-gunmen-open-fire-on-hundreds-at-music-festival-in-southern-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/hamas-gunmen-open-fire-on-hundreds-at-music-festival-in-southern-israel","title":{"rendered":"Hamas gunmen open fire on hundreds at music festival in southern Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hamas-gunmen-open-fire-on-hundreds-at-music-festival-in-southern-israel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/israel-attack-hamas-unprecedented-rocket-invasion\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> surprise assault on Israel<\/a> by Palestinian militant group Hamas Saturday, gunmen opened fire on hundreds of young people during a dance music festival in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Re\u2019im near the Gaza Strip, according to the Associated Press and multiple Israeli media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/thousands-flee-rocket-and-gunfire-at-all-night-desert-nature-party-dozens-missing\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Times of Israel<\/a> that rocket fire was followed by gunshots fired into the crowd, as hundreds tried to flee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe music stopped and there was a rocket siren,\u201d a young woman called Ortal told Israel\u2019s Channel 12, according to Reuters. \u201cSuddenly out of nowhere, they started shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the surprise assault on Israel by Palestinian militant group Hamas Saturday, gunmen opened fire on hundreds of young people during a dance music festival in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Re\u2019im near the Gaza Strip, according to the Associated Press and multiple Israeli media outlets. Witnesses told the Times of Israel that rocket fire [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}