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A music festival reveler who was at the rave in Israel when Hamas terrorists infiltrated and began killing partygoers was able to survive by hiding for seven hours under the bodies of those who were killed in the attack.
Lee Sasi was attending the all-night rave that drew in a crowd of about 3,000, mostly young Israelis, when Hamas launched their surprise attack Saturday morning, sending festival attendees running for their lives and taking cover in orchards as gunfire rang out for hours.
Sasi and about 35 others had taken cover in a bomb shelter when they were discovered by Hamas fighters, who began shooting into the bunker at random.
Sasi was one of 10 people who survived the horrifying attack by hiding under dead bodies for hours, according to messages she sent a friend that were shared with i24news reporter Natasha Raquel Kirtchuk Gutman on Instagram.
Horrifying video shows people crammed into a tight space, some hiding under the bodies of those who were killed.
In the messages, Sasi tells her friend there were between 30 and 35 people originally in the bomb shelter alive — but by the time she was saved seven hours later, only 10 people came out alive.
Her friend asks if that was how many people were still alive after they were saved and she replies, “Yes after 7 hours being in hiding under dead bodies in the bomb shelters.”
“I’m not joking,” she added, sending a photo of what appears to be several bodies stacked on top of each other.
Sasi then told her friend that one thousand bullets were shot into the bomb shelter while the group took cover.
“The Arabs attacked the party and started shooting and throwing grenades into the bomb shelter that didn’t have any doors,” she wrote. “15 grenades and 1000 bullets being shot.”
“For 7 hours straight,” she added.
According to the messages, Sasi contacted relatives of hers in Israel who sent ex-IDF soldiers to save her and the others.
“We were so lucky. It was all by a miracle,” she noted in the message.
An estimated 800 Israelis have been killed, more than 2,000 are wounded, and over 150 have been taken captive by Hamas, including foreigners.
Gaza health officials report at least 300 Palestinians have been killed with 2,200 injured since Saturday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “We are at war” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
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