The newspaper "Haaretz" indicated on its website, today, Saturday, that the Israeli security establishment's estimates have strengthened, that the participants in the shooting during the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation on the seventh of last October, had no prior knowledge of the festival that was held near "Kibbutz Ra'im", which is close to the Gaza Strip, and they decided to come to the place after they discovered that there was an event with wide participation.

The newspaper also reported that an Israeli military helicopter arrived at the site and opened fire on the gunmen, also wounding a number of festival participants.

The Israeli security establishment's assessment depends on several matters, including the investigations conducted with the resistance members who were arrested, and the investigations conducted by the Israeli occupation police, which led to the fact that the resistance fighters wanted to reach "Kibbutz Re'im" and other kibbutzim in the region.

The Israeli newspaper quoted an unnamed police source as saying that the investigation into the events “also revealed that a military helicopter belonging to the Israeli army arrived at the scene of the event coming from the military base (Ramat David) and opened fire toward the terrorists, and it appears that it also wounded some of the revelers.” "Those who were at the place. According to the police, 364 people were killed at the festival."

Haaretz reported that senior officials, whom it did not name, believed that they in the Hamas movement discovered the presence of the festival through marches or parachutes (parachutes), and directed the elements to the site through their communications system.

According to the Israeli allegations reported on the newspaper’s website, it was heard in a video clip taken by the body camera of a Hamas member asking one of the Israeli citizens who was arrested how to go to “Re’im,” even though he was in another area.

Among the evidence that supports these estimates, according to what the newspaper reported from its sources in the police and senior security officials, is that the first gunmen arrived at the party from the direction of Street 232 and not from the direction of the border fence.

The newspaper's police sources said that the ceremony was scheduled to be held on Thursday and Friday, and the army agreed on Tuesday evening of the same week for the festival organizers to hold it on Saturday as well, based on their request.

This last-minute change reinforces the assessment that Hamas was not aware of the festival. The newspaper quoted an unnamed senior Israeli police official as saying: “By our estimation, about 4,400 people were present at the event, and the vast majority of them were able to escape after the decision to disperse the festival was taken four minutes after a rocket salvo was fired.”

  Police analysis shows that many of the party participants managed to escape.

Source: Alaraby Aljadeed