Here is one young woman’s account of what happened at the music festival when the Hamas killers arrived. As we now know, at least 260 Israelis were murdered at the site. “Israeli survivors recount terror at music festival, where Hamas militants killed at least 260,” by Isabel Debre and Michael Biesecker, Associated Press, October 9, 2023:
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, reveling 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. took the stage, air raid sirens cut through the ethereal trap music. Rockets streaked overhead.
Alper, 25, jumped into her car and raced to the main road. But at the intersection she encountered crowds of stricken festival attendees, shouting at drivers to turn around. Then, a noise. Firecrackers? Panicked men and women staggering down the road just in front of her fell to the ground in pools of blood. Gunshots.
Saturday’s attack on the open-air Tribe of Nova music festival is believed to be the worst civilian massacre in Israeli history, with at least 260 dead and a still undetermined number taken hostage. [No: the attack was not just at the music festival, but at two dozen sites all over southern Israel; 1000 Israelis were murdered in what was “the worst civilian massacre in Israeli history.”] Dozens of Hamas militants who had blown through Israel’s heavily fortified separation fence and crossed into the country from Gaza opened fire on about 3,500 young Israelis who had come together for a joyous night of electronic music to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot….
“We were hiding and running, hiding and running, in an open field — the worst place you could possibly be in that situation,” said Arik Nani from Tel Aviv, who had gone to the party to celebrate his 26th birthday. “For a country where everyone in these circles knows everyone, this is a trauma like I could never imagine.”…
Festival-goers who managed to make it to the road and parking lot where their vehicles were parked found themselves trapped in a traffic jam, with militants stalking the cars and spraying those inside with gunfire. Drone footage of the scene taken after the attack and reviewed by the AP show chaotic lines of cars where drivers had attempted to flee. Some burned-out vehicles were flipped onto their sides, while others had bullet holes visible in shattered windows.
Nowhere was safe, Alper said. The roar of explosions, hysterical screams and automatic gunfire felt closer the further she drove. When a man just meters away shouted “God is great!”, Alper and her new companions sprung out of the car and sprinted through open fields toward a mass of bushes.
Alper felt a bullet whiz past her left ear. Aware the gunmen would outrun her, she plunged into a tangle of shrubs. Peering through thorns, she said she saw one of her passengers, the girl who had lost her friend, shriek and collapse as a gunman stood over her limp body, grinning.
“I can’t even explain the energy they (the militants) had. It was so clear they didn’t see us as human beings,” she said. “They looked at us with pure, pure hate.”
Videos show the gunmen executed some of the wounded at point-blank range as they crouched on the ground….
“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.”…
Even in her fear and despair, Maya Alper managed to hold on for more than six hours by thinking about — it’s a line of pure poetry — “the birds that were still singing, the sky that was so blue.”
“This is not just war. This is hell,” Alper said. “But in that hell I still feel that somehow, we can choose to act out of love, and not just fear.”
Remember this account. Remember the Hamas men moving methodically to mow down everyone — those trying to escape in cars, those who ran across open fields, those who tried to get into shelters, those who tried to play dead and then were dead. Remember the Hamas killer, having just murdered a girl, who was seen by Maya Alper standing over her limp body, grinning.
Walter Sieruk says
The message is so very important that it’s well worth reiterating.
The message is that it’s very true when it had been said that “history repeats itself.”
As seen in those two horrendously evil jihad masscures at what was supposed to be a gathering of young people for a peaceful joyful music event.
The first mass murder of a jihad attack was at a music concert at Manchester ,UK on May,22.2015.
The second was that recent murderous jihad massacre at a music festival in Israel.
Nevertheless , the lying apologists for Islam still keep on claiming that “Islam is a non-violent peaceful religion.” That claim is 100% balderdash.
Ami says
I disaree that this happened first time in 2015 in UK. Islam has been violent since it’s inception.
Hudders. says
Islam at it’s purest. Clear to see.
Rape, torture, murder; fear & death, all in the name of that ancient abomination allah.
Yet the Lord God blessed this young lady with a view of Heaven as hell appeared around her!
While the Hamas monsters soaked the ground red with innocent blood;
Sweet Maya Alper sang in her heart.
“THE BIRDS THAT WERE STILL SINGING, THE SKY THAT WAS SO BLUE.”
Truly islam & it’s babaric demon filled soldiers of jihad are a manifestation of utter evil.
I pray that the world will see what has unfolded in Israel & wake up to the realities of an ascendant muslim culture.
Because in but a short time the evil that visited blessed Israel, will visit their town or city; with all it’s medevial hellish horrors following closely behind.
Ami says
Agree, this is Islam and Kuran thought in every madrasa.
RalphG says
Yes, Ami, and Barack Hussein Obama, the Marxist Muslim, was educated in his early years in a madrasa. The US’s descent into mediocrity was initiated on the day of his inauguration.
God bless Israel. God damn, Islam.
Jayell1 says
This reminds me of the much smaller-scale but appalling muslim outrage at the Arianna Grande concert in Manchester, UK, in 2017, which the UK media have always seemed keen to downplay, and certainly hasn’t been revisited in relation to this event. Anything negative to do with islam – which is practically everything to do with islam – gets swept under the carpet as far as possible in this neck of the woods. I’m sure it must be the same elsewhere.
Aum says
Brave Maya.
chrissy01 says
I live in Germany. For decades I’ve been warning about the scum that is allowed into our country. In response, I was denounced as a Nazi, trying to interfere with people’s religious freedom.
One thing I would like to say: I am VERY tired of seeing Muslim women screaming when their misbehaving sons or husbands are called to account. I am very tired of the story of Pali victimhood. I am VERY tired of Islam being called a religion like any other. If that is so, National Socialism also also an ideology like any other.
And one last thing I feel is being left out in this discussion:
This is Jewish land, has been for millenia. The self-ascribed Palestinians are the descendants of Muslim invaders and thieves and murderers. They drove out and killed and disowned the Christians and the Jews who lived there. They took something by force that wasn’t theirs, as they did all over the Old World, including parts of India, i.e. Pakistan. Hindukush means “Death to Hindus”. etc. etc. etc. etc. Israel is not even half the size of Texas. It is tiny. Why not come to an agreement peacefully and reasonably, when you have so many options to migrate into the (other stolen) land of your religious brethren? What is going on in such minds??? I do not get it. You don’t pick a fight you can’t win. Not even that much of smart?
James Lincoln says
chrissy01,
Interesting that you are called a Nazi when you were against the importation of islam-o-Nazis.
John Andela says
AS a Dutchman and now residing in Canada My family was there to help you by hiding a family of four , from the Nazis We are still here to support you in what ever way possible , may our God be with you