The producers of Israel’s Supernova Sukkot Gathering have launched their first assertion following the bloodbath of roughly 260 attendees on the pageant in Re’im, Israel, final Saturday (Oct. 7).
The pageant was internet hosting roughly 3,000 attendees, with the lineup centered on the digital psytrance subgenre. At round 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists entered the location by truck, motorbike, ATV and paraglider and instantly started killing pageant attendees with machine weapons and RPGs. Quite a lot of attendees had been additionally taken hostage by Hamas. (Whereas the precise variety of hostages is unknown, two individuals shut the pageant put the quantity at round 150.)
At this time (Oct. 14), Supernova Sukkot Gathering producer Tribe of Nova posted a press release (revealed in each Hebrew and English) to its Fb web page. In it, organizers state that they’re “working hand in hand with safety forces and authorities to assist discover solutions and convey again all that those that can return to their households and buddies.”
The assertion additionally notes that members of the Nova Tribe group have been on the website of the assault over the previous week, “looking for these situated within the catastrophe space, or different places, recovering tools from the location and its environment and, above all, making certain the safety of Israel.”
The assertion continues to say that “at this second, our manufacturing group is targeted on offering the fitting and in depth emotional and psychological assist to everybody concerned. That is a very powerful factor on this second.”
Learn the whole assertion under.
Supernova Sukkot Gathering was the Israeli offshoot of the Paralello Universo pageant, a psytrance pageant launched in Brazil roughly 20 years in the past.
Hamas attacked others areas within the area of the pageant website, situated close to the Gaza border, on Oct. 7. Israeli has since retaliated with days of heavy bombing of Gaza, with the loss of life toll of Palestinians rising.
Full Assertion From Nova Tribe:
“Our expensive tribe of Nova, firstly, we need to convey our honest and heartfelt condolences to all of the households, buddies, companions and {couples} who’ve misplaced their family members or have been affected by the tragic occasions that unfolded, following that magic evening and that become an exceedingly heavy morning.
What was deliberate to be the happiest and largest digital music pageant of the Nova Tribe has become a scene of unspeakable tragedy, an inhumane battle crime, an unprecedented violation of essentially the most fundamental human values.
That is the epitome of pure and unbridled evil, the horrifying and mindless homicide of numerous harmless angels, whose solely ‘crime’ was being Jewish and residing in Israel.
It’s no marvel that these brokers of darkness targets this joyous gathering of youngsters of sunshine, for his or her sole and singular function is to carry darkness upon the world. However we received’t allow them to do this!
We are going to maintain preventing till we attain our goal adorned on our tribe’s flag: to unfold mild all through the world, with the assistance of the holy individuals of Israel and the Nova Tribe.
Final Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, we had been brutally attacked by lots of of terrorists, heartless, ruthless and missing any mercy. They murdered in chilly blood lots of of ladies and men, our beloved Tribe of Nova members, in addition to quite a few harmless Israeli civilians.
It was a heinous, terrifying, brutal bloodbath of harmless civilians from everywhere in the nation and the world, the very best and most amongst us. This was [one of] the biggest terrorist assault[s] in Israeli historical past. Taking the lives of 1,400 pure and harmless souls with over 150 stay [sic] lacking, 1000’s left bodily injured to various levels, and tens of 1000’s psychologically, emotionally and mentally damaged. [Billboard editor’s note: While around 260 festival attendee deaths have been reported, CNN says that last weekend’s Hamas attacks overall killed more than 1,300 people.]
At this second, our manufacturing group is targeted on offering the fitting and in depth emotional and psychological assist to everybody concerned. That is a very powerful factor on this second.
We’re working tirelessly, day and evening, conducting search and rescue operations, serving to establish the victims and updating their households. Looking for these situated within the catastrophe space, or different places, recovering tools from the location and its environment and, above all, making certain the safety of Israel.
That is our sole aim, and we’ll stand behind it and fulfill it to the very best of our talents. We won’t cease.
We’re current on the catastrophe website and its neighborhood day in and day trip, working hand in hand with safety forces and authorities to assist discover solutions and convey again all that those that can return to their households and buddies.
In the intervening time, that is our prime precedence. Within the meantime, it’s important for us to convey the next message: Our power lies in our unity! We’re in a battle for our residence, and it’s important that all of us come collectively, strengthen one another, and unite underneath one nice, shining mild to beat this darkish interval as shortly as doable.
We ship infinite love and an enormous embrace to all Tribe of Nova members and throughout Israeli civilians, the injured, the affected and the households of the deceased and the lacking.
Wishing all of you to remain secure and that you simply handle yourselves. We proceed to wish that goodness and lightweight will all the time prevail.
Want needs for a peaceable and secure week and good tidings for all the individuals of Israel. Each within the land and internationally.”