"I saw more death than ever in my life" - Woman gives harrowing account of attack on music festival in Israel
09.10.2023 - 17:59
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A woman whose family live in Manchester showed astonishing bravery to rescue four people when a music festival came under attack from Hamas terrorists armed with Kalashnikovs. It is believed 260 were killed and others kidnapped.
Noa Beer, 29, whose family live in Prestwich, was working at the Supernova festival billed as "a journey of unity and love" at the end of Israel's week-long Sukkot religious festival. Thousands of young people attended the event which was at Kibbutz Re'im just three miles from the border with Gaza.
It was still in full swing when it was first strafed by rockets then an estimated 50 militants arrived via paragliders and in vans, some dressed in military uniforms. Noa said: "At first when I saw the rockets flying above our heads I thought 'what a shame'. But then I was faced with a terrorist with a rifle 20 metres away from me and being surrounded by six more. I understood that 'shame' wasn't the right word, maybe fright, or disbelief that something like this could ever happen in my country."
She had arrived at 2.45am on Saturday as her job was to bring one of the foreign DJs for his set. "Up to the end of his set everything seemed so great, people were happy, partying, enjoying themselves. After his set I went into the dance floor. I like feeling the energy of happy people around me."
At 6.20am she went back stage to film the DJ during his set. "The last video on my phone was taken at 6.28am, just seconds before we noticed that there were rockets in the sky. The situation was surreal, we didn't hear anything as the music was loud, but suddenly we started seeing the rockets in the sky. The next few moments were scary, we shut down the music and yelled to the crowd that there were rockets and
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