More than 3,000 people have been killed in the first four days of conflict between Israel and Hamas militias. At least 260 bodies were found in the desert area near where the Supernova trance music festival was being held, near the town of Re'im, six kilometers from the Gaza Strip. The images shared of the Hamas offensive on the compound, which some users have renamed on networks as the "paragliders of death", are among the most viral of the conflict.
It is one of those clips attributed to Hamas and that has a technical invoice that shows that viral propaganda has become another of its weapons of war, as explained in this analysis of the videos of the conflict.
Some survivors of the attack have given their vision of how they experienced the surprise attack with cars, motorcycles and the so-called paragliders of death, who were also stunned to experience the situation in first person.
"The terrorists came down from the sky with paragliders and shot at everything they saw" is the statement of a young survivor who, terrified, recounts the events. "Some of those present fell to the ground and put their hands on their heads when they began to hear the previous missile bombardment, these people must be dead or kidnapped."
"I had never seen anything like this in my life. It was a planned attack. When people left through the emergency exits, groups of terrorists were waiting for them and started shooting at them," said an emergency doctor who attended the scene to help in resuscitation efforts: "It was a massacre."
A militia in supposed reconstruction circumvented the defenses of the greatest air defense power in the world, managing to deceive the Israelis with semi-rudimentary military techniques and thanks to the constant feeling they promoted of not being interested in a conflict that caught them off guard. The Gaza army, which until now was considered "a second-class threat" to the Israeli authorities, has penetrated its defenses in the most unexpected way possible.
"During Saturday morning, Israel was surprised twice, once by the strategy and intentions of the Hamas army, which were very different from what they could imagine they would apply, at no time did it cross their minds that they were going to attack by parachute ; and secondly because of the offensive capabilities that the organization has" declared Dr. Michael Milshtein, expert on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and director of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel-Aviv University.
Mukhaimar Abu Saada, an analyst and political science professor at Gaza's Al Azhar University, was also perplexed by the offensive. "Something beyond imagination, not even seen in the movies." This was a reference to the attack by land, sea and air, a creative, as well as brutal, military plan.
