Around 50 survivors of the Hamas attacks on a music festival on October 7 in Israel have filed a €50 million compensation claim against the Ministry of Defense and the Army for negligence.
The action was brought before a Tel Aviv court based on subsequent information from Israeli security authorities that they had information about possible threats against the festival, near Kibbutz Rei’m, one of the places where Hamas carried out the attacks. .
“It would take just one phone call from Israel Defense Forces officials [FDI] to the responsible commander of the party so that it could be dispersed immediately,” the group said in its complaint, according to the Times of Israel.
“Given the expected danger, lives would have been saved and physical and mental harm would have been avoided for hundreds of party participants, including those who filed this complaint. The negligence and gross carelessness are incredible,” the complaint reads. , also addressed to the Security Service. (Shin Bet) and the Israel Police.
The petition, valued at 200 million shekels (50 million euros) in compensation – for physical injuries, psychological injuries or medical expenses – collects the stories of the survivors of various crimes perpetrated on that occasion, and of how the Hamas men They managed to escape during the more than six hours that elapsed during the armed action.
“Hamas murdered 364 participants in the party and kidnapped 40, some have already been released and others are still missing. Many were physically or mentally injured, including those who filed this complaint,” the text continues.
The most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas was triggered after an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli territory on October 7.
In total, 1,140 people died that day, most of them civilians and among them about 400 soldiers, according to the latest official Israeli figures. Around 240 civilians and soldiers were kidnapped, and Israel said 127 remain in Gaza.
In retaliation, Israel, which has vowed to destroy the Palestinian Islamist movement, has bombed the Gaza Strip since October 7, where, according to the local government led by Hamas, more than 22,000 people have already died, mostly women, children and adolescents. . – – and injured more than 54,000, most of them civilians, destroyed most of the infrastructure and nearly two million were forced to abandon their homes, almost all of the enclave’s 2.3 million inhabitants.
The population of the Gaza Strip is also facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, due to the collapse of hospitals, the outbreak of epidemics and the shortage of drinking water, food, medicine and electricity. Since October 7, more than 300 Palestinians have also been killed by the Israeli army and by settler attacks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, occupied by the Jewish state.
Source: TSF
