The night was a getaway. Thousands of young men and women gathered at a vast field in southern Israel near the Gaza border to dance without a care. Old and new friends jumped up and down, revelling in the swirl of the bass-heavy beats.Maya Alper was standing toward the back of the bar with teams of environmentally conscious volunteers, picking up trash and passing out free vodka shots to party-goers who reused their cups. Just after 6.a.m., as a light-blue dawn broke and the headliner D.J.
While rockets rained down, revellers said, militants converged on the festival site while others waited near bomb shelters, gunning down people who were seeking refuge. Many of the militants, who arrived in trucks and on motorcycles, were wearing body armour and brandishing AK-47 assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images
As the carnage unfolded before her, Alper pulled a few disoriented-looking revellers into her car from the street and accelerated in the opposite direction. One of them said he had lost his wife in the chaos and Alper had to stop him from breaking out of the car to find her. Another said she had just seen Hamas gunmen shoot and kill her best friend. Another rocked in his seat, murmuring over and over, “We are going to die.
“I can’t even explain the energy they had. It was so clear they didn’t see us as human beings,” she said. “They looked at us with pure, pure hate.”Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images In this image from video obtained by the AP, Avinatan Or, second left, and his partner Noa Argamani, not pictured, are seized by Hamas during an attack on an Israeli music festival on Saturday, Oct. 7.Their whereabouts are now unknown. But Hamas claims it is now holding more than 100 Israelis as hostages. On Monday, the group threatened to begin systematically killing captives if the Israeli military bombs Palestinian areas without warning.
“Every time I thought of anger, or fear or revenge, I breathed it out,” she said. “I tried to think of what I was grateful for — the bush that hid me so well that even birds landed on it, the birds that were still singing, the sky that was so blue.”A screengrab from a video posted on Telegram on Oct. 9, 2023, shows an armed Hamas terrorist walking around a music festival near Kibbutz Reim in the Negev desert in southern Israel.
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