Ruth Margalit writes about the attack by Hamas militants on a music festival in southern Israel, in which at least two hundred and sixty attendees died.
As partygoers scrambled toward their cars or lay on the ground waiting for the barrage to pass, another kind of fire began. Cohen watched as four pickup trucks filled with armed militants and gunmen on motorcycles encircled the road leading out of the event venue, which was bottlenecked with cars attempting to flee the area. “They were shooting at people just a metre away,” Cohen told me over the phone on Sunday. “These were executions. We were like ducks in a firing range.
Some stories had happy endings: the dining hall at Kibbutz Be’eri, where roughly fifty residents had been held hostage, was liberated; a heroic father who had set off by car from Tel Aviv, and with the help of Israeli soldiers, said he had killed terrorists who had entered his son’s home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, saving his son and daughter-in-law, and their two young children, who had huddled in a reinforced room inside.
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