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‘It Needs to Be Seen’: Israeli Broadcaster Releases Documentary of ‘Real-Time Footage’ From Music Festival Massacre
Partygoers at the Supernova Psy-Trance Festival who filmed the events that unfolded on Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: Yes Studios
Yes TV, a leading Israeli broadcaster and streamer, premiered on Wednesday an original documentary that exclusively uses real-time footage to chronicle the terrorist onslaught at the Supernova electronic music festival, where Hamas murdered more than 300 young people and kidnapped 40 others on Oct. 7.
The film, called #NOVA, is also available to broadcasters worldwide through yes Studios. It was produced by Kastina Communications for yes Docu and directed by Dan Pe-er.
Pe’er volunteered to help survivors in the days following the massacre at the outdoor festival, which was held in Re’im, Israel, close to the border with Gaza, and attended by more than 3,500 people. He started collecting videos and audio clips from festival survivors and arranged the media chronologically before approaching the production company Kastina Communications to create #NOVA.
Guy Lavie, vice president of documentaries at yes TV, explained that the documentary is compiled “solely from real-time footage, much of it exclusive — and with no testimonials nor commentaries,” capturing “the genuine emotions and horror endured by thousands of music lovers, their families, and indeed our whole nation.”
“The number of stories emerging from that awful Saturday is inconceivable, and the Israeli filmmaking community is fully committed to documenting these stories and sharing the realities of that dreadful day,” he added.
Sharon Levi, managing director at yes Studios said, “We’ve all seen some clips from this day on news bulletins worldwide but to have all of this extraordinary and exclusive footage combined into one linear timeline makes for a really powerful and visceral narrative, sharing the true horror of the atrocities. It may be an extremely difficult watch for some, but this is an important film — and while we are all praying for a peaceful resolution to this centuries-old conflict — it needs to be seen.”
The attack at the music festival was part of a series of raids that Hamas carried out in southern Israel during the early hours of Oct. 7. In total, roughly 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were murdered by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists during the massacre, and 240 others were kidnapped and taken back to the Gaza Strip. More than 100 hostages have thus far been released, mainly as part of a temporary ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
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Treasure Trove tells a tale of oranges, fertilizer and bombs
In 1926, four British chemical companies merged to create Imperial Chemical Industries, which became one of Britain’s mightiest industrial companies. It was the brainchild of Alfred Mond who became the new company’s managing director and chairman. Mond was an industrialist, financier and proud Zionist, who was president of the British Zionist Federation, founder of the town of Tel Mond, east of Netanya, and a strong proponent for the introduction of electricity into Palestine.
In 1928, Imperial Chemical Industries established ICI Levant as a subsidiary that operated in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and Cyprus. Yechiel (Chilik) Weizmann, a chemist and the younger brother of Chaim who headed the World Zionist Organization, became the first manager.
ICI Levant imported pesticides, fertilizers, weapons and explosives, assisted local farmers in pest control and worked to educate farmers on the use of its products. Arabs in Palestine complained that ICI Levant was providing explosives and weapons to the Jews in Palestine, and was favouring Jewish labour for opportunities within the company. The company insisted it was neutral.
This is an advertisement for ICI Levant chemicals for use in fumigation. Prior to the Second World War, oranges were Palestine’s most lucrative industry growing from 831,000 boxes exported in 1920-21 to 13 million boxes in 1938-39. Yechiel Weizmann articulated the importance of ICI Levant’s pesticides for Palestine’s economy and agriculture when he said:
“The future of ICI is the future of Palestine, and what is the future of Palestine if not the future of orange trees; the future of orange trees is the extermination of the harming diseases.”
ICI Levant played another important role in the future of Palestine. In November 1945, an unknown man arrived at the company’s warehouse claiming to be a representative of the Hebron municipality and left with five tons of sodium nitrate. Two months later, eight armed men and women broke into the company’s offices in Tel Aviv and took ten tons of sodium nitrate.
Sodium nitrate is used in fertilizer… and explosives.
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Egypt’s Sisi, Trump Discuss Gaza Ceasefire; No Mention of Palestinian Transfer in Statement
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, June 10, 2024. Photo: Amr Nabil/Pool via REUTERS
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and US President Donald Trump agreed on the need to consolidate the Gaza ceasefire deal in a phone call on Saturday, the Egyptian presidency said, but it was unclear if they discussed Trump’s call for the transfer of Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan.
The presidency said in a statement they had a positive dialogue which stressed the importance of fully implementing the first and second phases of the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, and the need to step up humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza.
However, the statement did not mention if they discussed Trump’s statement last week that Egypt and Jordan should take in Palestinians from Gaza following 15 months of Israeli bombardments that have left most of its 2.3 million people homeless.
Critics have called his suggestion tantamount to ethnic cleansing.
Sisi rejected the idea on Wednesday, describing it as an “act of injustice.” However, on Thursday Trump reiterated his call, saying that “we do a lot for them, and they are going to do it,” in an apparent reference to US aid to both Egypt and Jordan.
Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Saturday also rejected a transfer of Palestinians from their land, saying such a move would threaten regional stability, spread conflict and undermine prospects for peace.
In their call, Sisi and Trump also expressed their keenness to achieve peace and stability in the region, the Egyptian presidency statement said.
Sisi invited Trump to visit Egypt as soon as possible to discuss problems in the Middle East, the statement added. The two presidents also discussed the need to strengthen their economic and investment ties, it said.
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Netanyahu to Depart Sunday for US to Meet with Trump
US President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk in the midst of a joint news conference in the White House in Washington, US, Jan. 28, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will depart on Sunday for the United States to meet with President Donald Trump, Netanyahu’s office said on Saturday.
Netanyahu has been invited to visit Trump at the White House on Tuesday and they will discuss the situation in Gaza, hostages held by Hamas, and the confrontation with Iran and its regional allies, a statement from his office said.
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