Israeli festival goers gunned down by Hamas as they flee Supernova music festival

It was supposed to have been an epic party, an all-night rave in a forest under the stars. Instead the Supernova music festival became the scene of a massacre, with hundreds of victims, most in their twenties and thirties, shot dead near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel. Starting at 11pm on Friday and running through the night, the party was attended by thousands. It ended with gunfire, rockets and missiles during one of the bloodiest days in Israel’s history, as Hamas militants from Gaza launched an attack by air, land and sea. Among the missing is Jake Marlowe, 26, a British citizen who had been working at the event as a security guard. A friend said last night that Marlowe, an Arsenal fan and heavy-metal musician, had left his family home in Potters Bar in Hertfordshire two years ago, after becoming alarmed at rising levels of antisemitism in the UK. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: #israel #supernova #gaza #middleeast