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Bono dedicates song to Israeli festivalgoers killed by Hamas militants
https://www.independent.ie/videos/bono-dedicates-song-to-israeli-festivalgoers-killed-by-hamas-militants/a609957859.html
Bono dedicates song to victims of Israeli music festival attacked by Hamas Militants
Maeve McTaggart
Mon 9 Oct 2023 at 14:00
Bono has paid tribute to those who were attending an Israeli music festival when it was attacked by Hamas on Saturday.
At least 250 young people were killed at the Supernova festival when Palestinian militants launched their attack, shooting and firing artillery as attendees tried to flee.
More are missing, with some having been taken captive.
The U2 frontman dedicated a song to the hundreds of victims of the attack during a concert at The Sphere in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
"We sing for our brothers and sisters, who they themselves were singing at the Supernova festival in Israel. We sing for those,” he said.
"Our people – our kind of people, music people, playful, experimental people. Our kind of people. We sing for them.”
Bono dedicated Pride (In the Name of Love) to those who died at the festival.
The frontman reportedly changed the lyrics to “Early morning October 7, the sun is rising in the desert sky, stars of David, they took your life but they could not take your pride.”
He later told the crowd it had been “a festival of music and peace, can you imaging what these f***ers were doing”, before singing the song MLK.
At a US gig in 1987, the Irish rocker famously hit out at the IRA bombing of the Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, which killed 12 people that same day, before launching into Sunday Bloody Sunday.
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