JERUSALEM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Hundreds of cars abandoned in the scramble to flee a massacre at an Israeli music festival where Hamas gunmen killed 260 people and took captives back into Gaza underline the scale of the deadliest attack on Israel in decades.
Video footage circulating on social media shows the gunmen descending in paragliders on the gathering in the Negev Desert.
Israeli emergency services said 260 bodies had been recovered from the site of the festival.
Other social media footage shows some of those taken captive from the party being led away by jubilant gunmen.
"I live on the Gaza border and I've seen things in my life, but I've never felt it this close," Maariv said.
Persons:
Arik Nani, Maariv, I've, James Mackenzie, Mark Heinrich Our
Organizations:
Hamas, Reuters, Nature Party, Thomson
Locations:
Gaza, Israel, Kibbutz Re'im, paragliders