⚠️ WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC IMAGERY ⚠️ This was a music festival. People drove out to the western Negev to hear a DJ and stand under cheap colored shade and drink from red fridges that still say Coca-Cola in the frame. By the time this camera is moving, the music is gone and the only question left on the audio is whether anyone lying there can still signal that they are alive. I’ve watched a lot of October 7 footage, hours of it, most of it unpublicized due to the severity of the imagery and the families not wanting it out there, and I still cannot get used to how ordinary the ground looks. Plastic chairs. A leopard-print bag by an open car door. A poster about being environmentally friendly. Then the bodies in the same dirt, and soldiers walking the same ground because the people who did this had already left with the ones they wanted alive. Propagandists talk about this day as being just “chaos” and “both sides” and a raid that got a little out of hand. This is not that. This is what a massacre looks like when it is finished with a field and has not yet finished with the country. This is what intent to kill anyone and everyone looks like. They came for civilians at a festival. Young unarmed students. That is the whole sentence. Everything after it is commentary.