FLASH
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For Arik Nan, the rave party in the desert a few kilometers from the Gaza border, on the last day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, was supposed to be an opportunity to have fun, disconnect and celebrate his twenty-sixth birthday, which falls this week. "After what happened, I can thank God that I reached him alive. It's like being born a second time", says Nani speaking for the Italian La Repubblica. Organized near Kibbutz Re'im, the "psy-trance" music festival promised over twelve hours of music with DJs from all over the world, from Japan to France, an international production (Brazilians Universo Parallelo) in partnership with the local band Supernova. Instead, it became the scene of carnage, with terrorists who came from Gaza killing hundreds of young men with machine guns, and taking an unknown number of them hostage in Gaza.
The party started around midnight and was supposed to last until yesterday afternoon", explains Arik. "Around six o'clock in the morning, while we were at the height of the party, we suddenly found ourselves surrounded by rockets, we saw dozens of rockets flying around us. Panic broke out."
Arik and the friend he went to the party with reach their car. They try to leave, but soon find themselves trapped. "We left the car and continued on foot. The rockets continued, but at that moment we started to hear machine gun fire. We were two or three thousand people who were fleeing, while they were shooting at us from all directions and we were surrounded by rockets".
Ariku and the others desperately try to find shelter. "I thought I was going to die, but suddenly we saw a gap and jumped into it. We hid in a bramble bush, we could see the bullets flying over our heads. While I was running away, I picked up a cell phone on the ground and suddenly the bell started ringing, risking that it would reveal our position, but I managed to turn it off."
After an hour in the canal, the boys decide to move and look for a safer place.
"We walked about fifteen kilometers until we finally found a car that took us to a relatively safe place - except for the rockets that continued."
Arik explains: "It was the worst experience of my life." The young man, a marketing professional, speaks from his brother's home in Tel Aviv. "I don't want to be alone at a time like this," he explains. "I'm also trying not to watch the news, to get through this difficult moment, but all I can think about is all the friends who have disappeared, who have been kidnapped, who have died. We were just a group of young people, almost all of us between twenty and thirty years old, we wanted to have fun, we didn't hurt anyone."
Since yesterday, Arik's phone has not stopped ringing. "Many people call me, they want news about their loved ones, but I don't know anything. So many of us have fled in different directions that I have no news to give."
When Israeli troops arrived in the area, they found themselves fighting dozens of terrorists, in a very fierce battle, where initially the police officers fought against the better equipped Hamas terrorists. It wasn't until around 2am on Sunday that paratroopers arrived and took control, although during the day there were still believed to be militants hiding in the bushes in the area.
After the fighting, the scene before police and medical personnel was truly apocalyptic, with dozens of abandoned and bullet-riddled vehicles, including the white vans used by the terrorists, inside which were found Kalashnikovs, grenades, bulletproof vests and copies of the Koran, according to the Israeli newspaper Ynet, and then rows and rows of still unnamed bodies.
In the evening, Zaka, the organization that deals with the bodies of those who fall in terrorist attacks, spoke of 260 corpses. "We are often the same people who go to these parties, we are more than a community, we are like a family", concludes Arik. "The idea that so many will not return breaks my heart." / La Repubblica – Bota.al
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