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Según una fuente policial, la investigación también indica que un helicóptero de combate de las IDF que llegó al lugar y disparó contra los terroristas también alcanzó a participantes del festival.

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Israeli Security Establishment: Hamas Likely Didn’t Have Advance Knowledge of Nova Festival
Senior Israeli security officials estimate that Hamas found out about the Nova music festival through drones or from those flying in parachutes, and directed the terrorists to the location using their comms system.

The growing assessment in Israel's security establishment is that Hamas terrorists who committed the October 7 massacre didn’t have advance knowledge about the Nova music festival held next to Kibbutz Re’im, and decided to target the party spontaneously. According to police, 364 people were murdered at the festival.

The assessment is based on terrorist interrogations and the police’s investigation of the incident, among other things, which reveal that the terrorists intended to infiltrate Re’im and other kibbutzim near the Gaza border.

According to a police source, the investigation also indicates that an IDF combat helicopter that arrived to the scene and fired at terrorists there apparently also hit some festival participants.

Senior security officials estimate that Hamas found out about the party through drones or parachutes, and directed the terrorists to the location using their comms system. In a video from one of the terrorists’ bodycams, he is heard asking a captured citizen for directions to Re’im.

One of the findings reinforcing this assessment, according to police and other senior security figures, is that the first terrorists arrived at the location from Route 232, and not from the direction of the border.

In addition, according to police sources, the party was originally planned for Thursday and Friday, with an extra day on Saturday added only on Tuesday of that week, at the organizers’ request. The last-minute change strengthens the assessment that Hamas hadn't known of the event.

“The event was attended, according to our estimate, by some 4,400 people, the large majority of whom managed to flee following the decision to disperse the event made four minutes after the rocket attack,” a senior police source said.

Police analysis shows that many of those attending the festival managed to flee because it was decided to stop the party half an hour before gunfire was first heard.