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Born in the Philippines in 1980, Caliente moved to the Queens neighbourhood of New York City with her family when she was a child.

That was the sense I got from talking to people in the neighbourhood around the festival site all day: an intense mix of shock, sorrow and fury.

Another woman, named Donna, said she lived in the neighbourhood for more than 50 years.

Live footage streamed by Reuters showed a giant plume of smoke billowing from the targeted building an hour after the Israeli army issued an evacuation order to residents of the Hadath neighbourhood.

Two plain-clothed police officers acknowledged that the neighbourhood was much busier than usual, but that it "felt like a Saturday," and that people had been very relaxed.