Israel-Gaza: More than 250 bodies found at site of Supernova festival

Nadia Ragozhina
Live reporter

More now from a resident of Sderot in southern Israel.

Dov Trachtman is busy catching up on the
day’s events when we speak again, after the power returns where he lives. He’s trying to keep track of friends who have been killed and those
who are still missing.

While the death toll is shocking, it is the way in which people were killed that Dov finds hard to comprehend.

He tells me about a group of elderly residents who had been
waiting for a bus around the corner from his house to go to the
Dead Sea for the day.

“They were all shot dead, their bodies piled one on top of
the other. The photographs spread all over social media,” he says, disbelief in his voice.

The BBC has not been able to verify this incident.

Dov says his home town of Sderot is still under lockdown more than 36 hours after it was first infiltrated by Hamas gunmen.

In the last few hours there’s been a fresh infiltration, he says, with more gunmen reaching the town.

The residents have been told to stay inside and be quiet. They can hear the sound of gunshots outside.

“I am carrying a knife. It won’t help me much against a gun, but I can’t not do anything. I am just hoping they don’t come for me.”

• Read earlier accounts from Dov here and here