Organizers from a music festival that was attacked by Hamas are helping Israeli security forces find missing attendees.
"We send strength and share the sorrow of the missing and murdered," Nova Festival said in a statement published to social media. "We are doing the best we can to help the security forces, maintaining constant contact with them and are positioned in the area taking part in searches in order to locate the missing."
Organizers are asking for anyone with information on missing persons from the festival to pass it along to relevant officials.
"We are hopeful and pray that good news will reach you and us soon," the statement continued. "At these moments, it is important we stay strong and unified, faithful, and support each other and we will be there for anyone who needs it."
Some background: The outdoor Nova Festival event in a rural farmland area near the Gaza-Israel border was supposed to be an all-night dance party, celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
But as dawn broke, attendees began hearing sirens and rockets. Hamas fighters raided the festival, gunning down innocent people as they ran for their cars. Others were taken hostage.
Dozens of bodies were seen at the festival grounds in photos released by Israel's foreign ministry in the aftermath of the attack. In one of the images, a body bound by cable ties is seen badly burned. It's unclear why the individual is bound, but Hamas fighters have been seen putting prisoners in the restraints in videos from their assault.
Read more on the festival here.
CNN'S Gianluca Mezzofiore, Clarissa Ward and Brent Swails contributed reporting to this post.