In the ensuing crush, he remained conscious even as others apparently died around him.
“I saw all the bodies. I saw bodies on me, under me,” he said.
“I thought I was going to die,” Ba’al Haness said, explaining that he was left struggling to breathe for around five minutes, buried in the mass of bodies. In what he thought were his final moments, the religious teenager said he prayed to God.
Eventually, police reached him and began pulling people out from on top of him.
Ba’al Haness said he was eventually brought out to a military vehicle to be taken away from treatment.