AN ISRAELI survivor of the tragic Nova Music pageant bloodbath was compelled to cover in a skip and watch her boyfriend get slaughtered by the hands of sick Hamas terrorists.
Style mannequin Noam Ben David, 28, was shot within the hip and legs however saved quiet as she hid below a pile of lifeless our bodies to save lots of herself from the massacre.
Her accomplice David Neman was amongst dozens slaughtered earlier than her very eyes in a sick sport of “Russian Roulette”.
She has now opened up in regards to the harrowing expertise in an interview with The Solar.
Artist Noam was invited to the Nova pageant together with David to make work, which she loved doing commonly at varied music festivals.
It was through the early hours of October 7 when Hamas terrorists started their brutal marketing campaign of terror, breaching the Gaza border from 60 totally different places solely to enter Israel and slaughter harmless civilians.
The atrocity left 364 revellers from the worldwide music pageant murdered and 44 others taken hostage.
At six within the morning – when the rave get together was at its peak – Noam revealed she watched dozens of missiles fired from Gaza flying over the pageant website in southern Israel however thought it was a fireworks show.
However actuality set in when an individual got here in direction of her working and screaming: “Run! You both keep right here and die or escape to save lots of your life.”
Noam stated: “I noticed raging Hamas males coming in direction of us firing automated photographs. It was like a Russian roulette sport of who will get the bullet.”
Unable to get out of the pageant website attributable to a site visitors jam, Noam, alongside together with her boyfriend and different revellers, headed again to the pageant website to cover in giant skips.
“I felt my legs actually heavy on the time, and David did not go away me for a second.
“I even fell down on my face through the working, and he fell with me, and he advised me: ‘Simply breathe. Do not be panicked. I am right here with you each time you may simply rise up in your ft and we proceed to run.’
Like many different revellers on the pageant, Noam and David have been caught on the pageant website in confusion and chaos.
“As time handed by, we tried to name the police, totally different media organisations – even the military [IDF] however nobody helped us,” She stated.
“I even talked to my mum on the cellphone that point, our households knew nothing in regards to the [unprecedented] assault. There was nothing on the TV.
“I advised her: ‘They’re going to shoot me.’
I by no means imagined I must tear a bit of fabric from a lifeless physique simply to cease the blood from flowing out of my physique
Noam Ben David
“Then I noticed a automotive explode in entrance of me and thick black smoke started to return out of it. That’s once I realised [Hamas terrorsists] are close to us. I may hear the gunshots getting louder and louder.
“After which we heard folks converse in Arabic, that is once I advised David I do not care we have to go away.
“He threw me contained in the [big] trash container… there have been lots of people hiding already.
Describing the horrifying chaos, Noam added: “It was devastating. There’s a lady subsequent to you who needs to pee and her legs are all numb and she or he is in ache.
“You might be consistently attempting to elucidate to her that it’s a matter of life and demise.
“However on the identical time, you are attempting to manage your self as properly. You are attempting to seek out the place is your boyfriend, is he okay?”
I attempted to scream however I knew I couldn’t be heard. [David] stopped replying to me and a person close by advised me he was lifeless
Noam Ben David
Noam revealed how a courageous David stood on the entrance of the skip, attempting to determine a option to escape all of the insanity.
She stated: “After we realised nobody was going to return and save us, David took cost of the state of affairs.”
However time stopped for the Israeli mannequin when she heard gunshots simply exterior the bin earlier than David went silent fully.
A sobbing Noam advised The Solar: “I heard David gasping for air [after he was shot]. I felt helpless as I knew I may do nothing. I knew he was lifeless after I heard automated gunshots being fired close to the cans.
“I attempted to scream however I knew I couldn’t be heard. He stopped replying to me and a person close by advised me he was lifeless.”
After the terrorists killed David, Noam was shot in her hip and leg.
She saved her eyes closed and her physique nonetheless, tricking the ruthless terrorists into pondering she was lifeless.
After many hours of surviving immense bodily ache and the traumatic expertise of shedding her accomplice, Noam was lastly rescued by the IDF.
“There have been 16 folks contained in the trash can however solely 4 of us survived. I noticed everybody getting killed in entrance of me after Hamas males tossed grenades contained in the trash can,” she continued.
“I used to be shot within the hip and legs which compelled me to get in a wheelchair.
“There was a man beside me along with his head down and lined in blood.
“And there was a lady on prime of me whose physique was riddled with seven bullets.
“I by no means imagined I must tear a bit of fabric from a lifeless physique simply to cease the blood from flowing out of my physique.
“After I used to be rescued from the trash container by Israeli forces, I noticed David’s lifeless physique mendacity on the ground.
“The solar hit his lovely face, his blonde hair was shining. He was trying like an angel.”
I had imagined a stupendous life with David. We deliberate on getting married. All the pieces modified that day
Noam Ben David
Whereas she was hiding, Noam noticed a lady in a close-by trash can elevating her head and screaming “They noticed me … they’re coming for me” earlier than Hamas males approached and shouted: “Allahu Akbar” and began taking pictures with their AK-47s.
She added: “I heard her saying please go away me, please do not take me. I recognised her voice and it was devastating.”
The girl she was referring to was Shani Louk who was snatched from the pageant and brought hostage in Gaza.
Shani’s plight turned probably the most harrowing and recognisable photos because the world got here to phrases with the atrocity on October 7.
The German-Israeli tattoo artist was final seen in harrowing footage of Hamas terrorists parading her body on the pack of a pickup truck.
It was a clip that shocked the world.
Nova Music Pageant was imagined to be a celebration of “peace. love and spirituality” for hundreds of revellers who attended the trance get together that day.
Nevertheless, all it may grow to be was an totally tragic occasion that’s now etched ceaselessly within the collective psyche of Israel.
Many are nonetheless lacking and no less than 50 survivors have killed themselves within the aftermath, unable to deal with the haunting reminiscences.
Nova stated of the tragic bloodbath: “You may’t think about the trauma.
“I had imagined a stupendous life with David. We deliberate on getting married. All the pieces modified that day.”
“However I need to get again on my ft and dance once more, for David and all of the angels.”
Israel believes round 101 hostages are nonetheless being held in Hamas’ evil clutches in Gaza. A minimum of 36 of them are feared to be lifeless.
A complete of 97 hostages stay unaccounted for after they have been kidnapped by Hamas thugs a 12 months in the past.
And an extra 4 folks taken hostage in 2014 and 2015 are nonetheless being held.
In line with Israeli figures, 251 Israelis and foreigners have been kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 final 12 months.
A gaggle of hostages have been launched in November and one other one in June.
The harrowing accounts from Nova Pageant are retold within the documentary known as Surviving October 7: We Will Dance Once more.
The movie shares the very telling private tales of those that lived, these taken hostage and those that died – as confusion was worry, after which chaos when Hamas arrived and started to slaughter anybody in sight.
The deeply transferring testimony of survivors is interspersed with unseen CCTV, cell phone and automotive dashcam footage, in addition to surprising GoPro footage from Hamas’ personal stay stream and calls to emergency companies.
- Surviving October seventh: We Will Dance Once more is on BBC iPlayer
A 12 months of chaos in Center East
CHAOS has eurpted acorss the Center East since Hamas launched a brutual marketing campaign of terror on October 7 final 12 months.
Tons of of terrorists stormed the border between Gaza and Israel, slaughtering over 1,200 Israelis and kidnapping a whole lot extra.
Within the months since Israel has virtually fully destroyed the strip to eradicate the group and convey residence its trapped folks.
Greater than 41,000 folks in Gaza have been killed – virtually 10,000 of them being kids.
IDF claims no less than 11,000 of them have been Hamas males.
Amid the continued navy operation, bombings and airstrikes have flattened the vast majority of the buildings, and the strip has been decreased to rubble.
Heavy airstrikes, the blocking of help and the concentrating on of hospitals and refugee camps the place the IDF says terrorists are hiding have left most of Gaza a smoking wasteland.
And for many who are nonetheless alive and crammed into components of the tiny strip, malnutrition is rife and famine is a fast-approaching worry.
Israel has been the topic of monumental worldwide scrutiny as the large demise toll of civilians in Gaza continues to develop larger.
However amid worldwide cries for peace, Israeli PM Netanyahu has vowed to not cease till Hamas is destroyed.
Israel’s navy pursuit in Gaza has additionally crossed the borders of Lebanon, with the IDF now conducting a focused navy invasion in opposition to Hezbollah – Iran’s prime terror proxy group.
Iran, Israel’s archenemy has suffered main blows with the demise of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and has focused Israel with direct missile strikes twice – with the newest hit going down simply final week.
The world now awaits Israel’s response to Iran’s strike, and the way Iran reacts to it as an all-out Center East, which may probably drag the West into it, might be on the brink.