At 6 a.m., as the sun rose, the music stopped and the terrorists surrounded the revelers
Hadar and her boyfriend played dead under their vehicle for about 10 hours
Some describe the attack as “Israel’s 9/11”
“We were running between the bodies. We were like ducks on a shooting range,” said Michal Ohana, a survivor in the nightmarish Hamas massacre at a rave party in Israel.
More than 260 young people died at the fatal party, shot and brutally slaughtered by the fighters of the terrorist group.
It was also one of the first large-scale attacks targeting a music festival, a multi-day open-air dance festival held near Kibbutz Reim in southern Israel. There were thousands of participants from all over the world.
Hamas kidnaps, tortures and kills anyone who moves – including women, children and the elderly. As of now, more than 900 civilians have been killed, over 2,700 injured, and untold numbers are missing; at least 150 civilians are believed to have been kidnapped and are being held hostage in Gaza.
There are also reports of members of Hamas and residents of Gaza committing sexual assaults, desecrating corpses and abusing captive Israeli children, writes ynet.
At Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital are some of the survivors who managed to escape the nightmarish mass slaughter at the music festival.
“There was a moment when we ran to the central square of the party,” Michal Ohana, 27, said from her hospital bed, her voice shaking as she recounted the terrorist killings. “We ran between the bodies”.
Ohana, originally a resident of Mevaseret Zion, an Israeli town near Jerusalem, now lives in Portugal. She arrived in Israel for the birth of her nephew and while she was here, she decided to travel to the south of the country for a rave party with her friends.
At 6 a.m., as the sun rose, the music stopped and the rocket sirens went off. After that, Hamas terrorists surrounded the celebrants from all sides.
“We started hearing gunshots from all directions,” Ohana says.
“We got into our cars and started driving – me and my friend. They just started shooting at us. We had to run. We just let the car move with all our belongings and ran. They were shooting at us from all directions. We managed to we got to some white gazebo. It looked like there were hundreds of people inside. Some wounded, some with bullets in their legs, others with bullets in their behinds. People were trying to help each other. I had a towel that I used to make a tourniquet for somebody she added.
Soon, however, the gazebo was surrounded by dozens of armed Hamas terrorists. A policewoman advised them to escape, Michal’s friend carried her in his arms, as she was already too exhausted. He threw her into a car in the hope that this act would save her life.
“That was the moment we broke up,” Ohana says. In any case, the danger was far from over.
“The terrorists were right behind us and we walked towards the road thinking we would be safer there. When we got to the road we were blocked by a bunch of white pick-up trucks full of terrorists. They started shooting at us and we we tried to retreat. They were shooting at us and from the other side, so we started getting out of the cars and running in all directions. We hid in the bushes. I saw women climbing trees … and then I saw an IDF tank (b.b. – The Israel Defense Forces). I thought, “Okay, this looks like a safe place.” We got to the tank, but there were no soldiers there,” says the young woman with horror in her eyes.
Nearly 100 participants fleeing the party hid in an Israeli army tank. Only three of them were armed – the policewoman from the gazebo, a soldier and a civilian. They returned fire on the advancing terrorists.
“There was a moment when the terrorists threw a grenade and we couldn’t see anything. At that moment they kidnapped several people. They shot me in the leg while I was under the tank, which I thought was the safest place. I was bleeding, but no I could tell where because they were all covered in blood. They were all injured and they were all on top of each other,” Ohana continues.
“Then I started praying. That was the moment I thought I was done for.”
After six hours hiding under the tank, Ohana survived. Israeli security forces arrive and take her and several other wounded to safety. However, some of the victims were left because there was no room for everyone. It is not clear what happened to them.
“It wasn’t a war. We were like ducks. Sitting ducks on a shooting range,” she says.
Meanwhile, Shani Hadar, 35, from Hadera, Israel, had a similar experience. She came under fire while trying to escape from Hamas terrorists who were relentlessly hunting everyone. She and her friends arrived at the one-day celebration minutes before the shooting began.
Pressed on the road from all sides, Hamas terrorists fired indiscriminately at the cars. No one could get through their blockade. Seeing this, Hadar swerves his car off the road.
“They saw me go by and started shooting at us. Then they shot me in the shoulder from behind. I don’t even know how – I just saw pieces of flesh flying through the car. My friend yelled, ‘Don’t stop, don’t stop,’ and we hit the gas pedal all the way. Then I saw that the road ended, so I turned the car to the right. We got out of the car, and I was trying to understand what was happening to my arm – with the help of a kimono we had to tie the wound and stop the bleeding. Then we called MADA (b.b. – the national emergency medical service in Israel)”, says the 35-year-old woman.
From there, however, they were told they could not arrive under fire and advised Hadar and her friend to do what they could to stop the bleeding and stay put until help arrived. Help did not come.
Hadar and her boyfriend played dead under their vehicle for about 10 hours until she felt she couldn’t hold on much longer.
“We called MADA and asked, ‘What’s going on?’ I felt like I was falling asleep, that my pulse was going down, and that I wasn’t going to last much longer. We had no food, no water. Nothing. And then the officers on the phone said, ‘I’ll tell you the truth. . You have two options. Either you risk and wait where you are, or you risk running and saving yourself.”
Hadar and her friend got back in the car and started driving to the nearest road, and shortly after found ambulances that took them to hospital. Seeing that they were safe, Hadar even asked if she could help some of the other wounded. But the emergency medics replied that they were already dead.
So far, more than 60 patients like Ohana and Hadar have been treated at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. Hospitals are overflowing with wounded civilians and soldiers who have overwhelmed Israel’s southern intensive care units.
The most common injuries are gunshot wounds to the shoulders, legs, arms and abdomen.
“I know that some of my friends were kidnapped because videos of them were posted on the Internet,” says Michal Ohana.
“Some of my friends that I saw in the videos are dead. There are others who are missing and we are currently trying everything to find them, but we don’t know what is happening to them. Some of the abductees had already left the party. They had left but came back to save people,” Ohana explains, adding that they knew help would not arrive soon.
Furthermore, Shani Hadar suspects that Hamas did not attack this festival by accident.
“They came to slaughter, to destroy. I know that they kidnapped girls. That they raped women even after they killed them,” she says.
“The terrorists stole IDF uniforms and just started knocking on doors, pulling people out and shooting them,” Hadar said.
“They step on children’s heads. They step on soldiers. They caught a mother and her children. They called the parents of a kidnapped woman and said: ‘Your daughter is alive, we will rape her.’ These are beasts. Predators. Animals that do not they know how to act,” she cries.
Similarly, through teary eyes and broken voice, Michal Ohana complains that “what people see abroad is not what happens here.
Almost every person in the country has been affected by the murderous attack by Hamas that took place on Saturday, October 7th.
Some have even described it as “Israel’s 9/11”. A terrorist attack the likes of which Israel had never seen before, and which plunged the country into a full-scale war with Hamas.
2023-10-10 22:00:00
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