"They were going tree by tree, shooting..."

Gili Yoskovich was among hundreds of young people at a dance music festival in southern Israel, near the Gaza Strip, when gunmen opened fire in the early hours of Saturday morning, as Palestinian militants launched a co-ordinated attack on Israel.

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She described to the BBC how she hid under a tree in a field as gunmen roamed about shooting anybody they found.

“They were…all over the place with automatic weapons.

“They were standing next to the cars starting to shoot but I realised it was very easy to get killed…because everyone was going everywhere.

“The terrorists were coming from four or five places…so we didn’t know whether to go here, so then I got into my car again and I drove a little bit more

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