The latest Israel-Palestinian war reverberated around the world Tuesday, as foreign governments tried to determine how many of their citizens were dead, missing or in need of medical help or flights home.
JERUSALEM — Rotem Neumann, who was identified as missing in an Associated Press story yesterday, was found dead Tuesday, her cousin, Tomer Neumann, said. Rotem, a 25-year-old Portuguese citizen and a student in Tel Aviv, had been missing for at least three days by the time her body was found.
Neumann was was at the Teva festival, one of several music festivals near the Gaza border that was invaded by militants in the early hours of Saturday morning. Rotem first called her parents from the festival when she heard rocket fire, Tomer said. That was the last time the family heard from her. Rotem then got into a car with friends and drove north, seeking shelter. The car soon encountered trucks filled with militants, shooting at them with machine guns. Panicked, they turned around and started going in the opposite direction. Militants with guns crowded the roads south, too.
They climbed out of the car and began running east, away from the border, piling into a concrete shelter they found at Kibbutz Re’im. Rotem sent a message to a friend there, sharing with him her location so he could take shelter. Militants soon peppered the shelter with bullets. Bodies have been found in the area around the shelter, Tomer said, though it was not immediately clear if Neumann’s body had been discovered at the site.
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