How I Survived The Music Festival Slaughter

A survivor of the horrifying Hamas attack on a music festival in the group’s Israel invasion has told how she feared she would be raped and killed.

Photo shows Millet Ben Haim, undated. She was at the Nova Festival in Israel when Hamas fighters attacked festivalgoers. (@millet_bh/Newsflash)

Traumatised Millet Ben Haim, 27, hid in a bush for six hours after Hamas gunmen opened fire on the Supernova music festival near the Gaza border on 7th October.

Now she has told German media how she feared she would be hunted down, raped and then shot by the Hamas killers.

She said: “I imagined what I would do if they found me. If I cry or beg for my life, they will probably laugh at me.”

Millet added: “They won’t care. They’ll just rape and murder me.”

Chillingly, Millet recalls how she took a smiling selfie with her friends at 6:29 am just two minutes before the first Hamas gunmen appeared.

The terrifying slaughter left 364 festivalgoers dead and another 40 snatched and taken back to Gaza.

Millet said: “I often went to parties. For me it was a normal weekend until the music stopped at 6:30. It was a really good party up until that point.

Photo shows Millet Ben Haim, undated. She was at the Nova Festival in Israel when Hamas fighters attacked festivalgoers. (@millet_bh/Newsflash)

“We felt like a community, everything was full of love, we felt safe and completely surrendered to the moment.

“Then came the rockets. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of rockets covered the sky. Security then began evacuating the area.

“Many people were helpless and didn’t understand what was happening at all.”

She told how she had at first tried to escape by car but realised Hamas had taken control of the road.

Millet said: “We tried to escape by car. The police officers told us which direction to go.

“But after a few metres, people started shouting that there were terrorists in front who were shooting.

“Several people in the cars in front of us were murdered, they were simply shot.

Photo shows Millet Ben Haim, undated. She was at the Nova Festival in Israel when Hamas fighters attacked festivalgoers. (@millet_bh/Newsflash)

“So I turned around and drove the other way. But after two minutes all the cars stopped again and we heard gunshots.

“The terrorists were on all sides, we couldn’t go anywhere. And we knew they were getting closer and closer.

“We began to understand that there were many terrorists, not just a small group.

“But of course, we couldn’t imagine that thousands of terrorists had entered Israel at that point.”

After abandoning the car, Millet said she tried to flee on foot.

She said: “It was pure chaos. You run for your life and no matter where you run, other people come towards you screaming and saying that they are being shot at from there too.”

Confused and terrified, Millet ended up wandering for hours.

Photo shows Millet Ben Haim, undated. She was at the Nova Festival in Israel when Hamas fighters attacked festivalgoers. (@millet_bh/Newsflash)

She said she found a bush with three other women and even though it was a poor hiding place they were too frightened and exhausted to go any further.

As they cowered in the undergrowth for six hours, Millet tried calling the police for help but got the grim news that no help was coming.

She explained: “I called the police. I spoke as quietly but also as clearly as I could.

“A police officer was very honest with me. He said that we should persevere.

“But also that the surrounding villages are occupied by terrorists.

“I wasn’t angry with him. I realised something really big happened. And that the army simply can’t help us now.”

It was only then that Millet understood the scale of the Hamas invasion which left 1,200 dead and 240 kidnapped in the biggest slaughter of Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Photo shows Millet Ben Haim, undated. She was at the Nova Festival in Israel when Hamas fighters attacked festivalgoers. (@millet_bh/Newsflash)

She was, she said, finally saved by civilian Ramy Davidian who rescued more than 100 people from Hamas.

Ramy contacted her and said he would honk his car horn and that she should come when she heard it.

Millet said: “It was a thought I had about the Holocaust since I was a child. I remember as a child thinking about how some people managed to survive.

“How some in the ghetto had the strength to fight or flee. I remembered a film about the escape from the Sobibor concentration camp.

“I thought: If you accept the fact that you’re going to get killed anyway, then you can do it. That’s how I felt. I said to myself: If you get killed, you get killed.

“That gave me the courage to leave my hiding place. I crawled out and saw a car with a Hebrew sticker. So I lifted my head for a second so he could see me.”

Millet was saved but she said: “I don’t feel like it’s over. The trauma is so great, it affects me so deeply. My cousin was shot. We miss our friends and family members.

Photo shows Millet Ben Haim, undated. She was at the Nova Festival in Israel when Hamas fighters attacked festivalgoers. (@millet_bh/Newsflash)

“Our soldiers are over there fighting. One of my friends was wounded in Gaza.

“They shoot rockets at us every day. After my cousin’s funeral, the level of grief and fear was so overwhelming that I think my heart just stopped. It’s far from over.”

She added: “I feel like a ghost. I do not know who I am.”