• Gazans are descendants of the Biblical Philistines
• Israel unilaterally withdraw from Gaza in 2005 and left the Gazans everything to develop a riviera style economy.
• around 350 killed at Nova music concert
• The Hamas Nukba terrorists breached the Gaza-Israel border in 119 places
• 30-50 at Nova committed suicide. They are included in the numbers of deceased.
• Exact numbers hard to quantify, not everyone who bought Nova music concert tickets didn’t come, others gate-crashed
• Up to Oct 6, Israeli Kibbutzim on the border were helping employing Palestinian farm labor. They mapped out the Kibutzum and buildings where people lived, to help Hamas increase the murder numbers.
• The Nova trans experience included drugs and different drug recipes. At 6am most were awake for the best experience….At 6.29am the Police closed the event and the emergency exits were opened. The ex-IDF kids heard kalashnokovs, saw gliders. The ground was largely open, when the shootings began there was nowhere to hide. They had to run.
• Road 232 is now called the Death Highway. Hamas was waiting there for the people running and driving away from the Nova concert. They shot the car engines, then the people, then the fuel tanks in order to set fire to them. The aim was to kill as many people as possible. So the escaping Israelis had to flee north or south, not east or west. Police roadblocks slowed down the escape. Those that knew the local dirt roads took them. They fired RPG
• Sharabi family story. A few hid in a tank and fired a dead soldier’s gun once an hour after cleaning sand out the barrel with vaseline.
• Around 950 cars were burnt, and 1000 cars were shot up. The remains can be seen physically at Tekuma
• Nova is now a memorial site.
• All IDF soldiers are required to visit Nova, to see how bad it was.
• Road 232 had to be resurfaced recently as large parts were burnt.
• Migunit shelters by bus stops are large enough for 7 people.
• Migunit with 27 Israelis inside (intended for 7). Hamas six in grenades, Omer Shapira threw them back out. The seventh grenade killed him and most of the others. Hersh Goldberg, American-Israeli, broke his arm and was taken hostage. He was later killed by Hamas in Rafah when the IDF unknowingly approached.
• Beeri is to be rebuilt soon.
• Netiv HaAsara may not be rebuilt, nobody wants to return.
• The Tshuva Brothers run a roadside restaurant giving free meals for 2000 soldiers a day. Donations and voluntary help accepted.