Yarden Gonen admits she still finds the absence of her sister Romi "unbearable", three months after the 23-year-old was taken hostage during an attack by Hamas at a music festival in southern Israel.Among the festival-goers killed were Haodya and Tair 27 and 23 years old nieces of Asaf Pozniak, one of the founders of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
Tomer Bassis expected his day to be filled with electronic trance music at the Oct. 7 desert rave party he was attending in southern Israel. Instead, the sounds of bullets whizzing by as he ran to escape the indiscriminate gunfire of Hamas militants became the soundtrack seared into his mind. The 25-year-old Israeli was among some 3,000 other young revelers at the music festival who fled the carnage as the militants from Gaza descended on the field, gunning down young men and women and throwing rocket-propelled grenades into the crowd in an unprecedented rampage.
A split-second decision to run and hide in an orange grove could be the very thing that saved 22 year old Gal Katz’s life, after Hamas militants unleashed a harrowing assault on an Israeli music festival in the early hours of Saturday.
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