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Noya hid in darkness at her grandmother Carmela's home, texting each other in silence as explosions erupted around the kibbutz of Nir Oz on Saturday morning.
Omer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager from Israel, was among the crowd at the Tribe of Nova festival in Re'im when Hamas gunmen stormed the site and opened fire, killing at least 260 people.
The four-day-old war has already claimed at least 1,600 lives, as Israel saw gun battles in the streets of its own towns for the first time in decades and neighbourhoods in Gaza were reduced to rubble.
Hamas today told Israeli civilians to get out of the port city of Ashkelon now 'in response to the air strikes' that are relentlessly pounding the Gaza strip, in a sinister warning.
May Hayat, 30, was among the crowd at the Tribe of Nova festival in Re'im when Hamas militants opened fire, killing more than 260.