A young Venezuelan woman survived the deadly attack by the Hamas terrorist group at the Supernova electronic music festival, which took place between October 6 and 7 in Israel, in a rural area near the Gaza Strip. Sharon Truzman told in an interview how she saved her life out of desperation and exhaustion due to the hours she had to run to flee from the Palestinian militiamen who were shooting mercilessly against all the people who attended the event.
Truzman said that she bought the ticket a day before and that she attended accompanied by some friends who, in turn, attended with other acquaintances.
“(The festival) is something that people have been waiting for. It was going to be one of the biggest festivals in Israel and six months in advance they were already buying tickets; I bought it a day before, but I had been thinking about going for a while. I went with two friends and there we met others. Not all of them returned alive, five survived,” he told Shirley Varnagy, a Venezuelan journalist of Jewish origin.
“We are starting to see missiles leaving Gaza”
The Supernova began at 10:00 pm on Friday, October 6, and was scheduled to end on Saturday, October 7, at 3:00 pm. All the people who were at the site were waiting for dawn because, the young woman assured, Israel is a very spiritual country that was in tune with the concept of “peace, life and love” that the festival has.
“It was already dawn. It was 6:30 in the morning and we started to see missiles coming out of Gaza (towards Israel). But that was the least important thing, of everything that happened, that was the thing that scared us the least. We didn’t expect something like this to happen. There were many police officers. I told my friends that there was too much security, too many police officers. “It is the party where I have seen the most police in Israel and I assumed we were safe,” she said.
Sharon Truzman said the police and military were aware of the event because it was taking place in an area very close to Gaza.
“What happened was very unexpected. There were people who ran away and people like us who stayed a while and my friend’s friends, who died, had said to stay a while to listen to music. Because there were 3,500 people trying to leave, there were many cars. We told them no, that we were going to Tel Aviv. And thank God we left,” he said.
The surviving Venezuelan indicated that they went out in a vehicle to the road, which was completely blocked because the police did not allow them to move in any direction because the terrorists were already approaching in groups and shooting at everyone.
“There was no hope, I was already given up”
The security he felt was gone. When they heard the gunshots nearby, they got out of the car and began running towards the open field. Many of these images, in which hundreds of desperate and directionless young people were observed, went viral on social networks.
“It was too big a field and cars couldn’t even pass because it was an agricultural field. There was a road for cars and there was horrible traffic. Everyone got out of the cars and started running and each time you heard the shots getting closer, literally brushing against you. At that point there was no hope, I was already exhausted, I had understood that I was going to die,” he narrated.
Sharon Truzman stopped for a moment at approximately 8:00 in the morning, she had already lost sight of her friends. She sent a message to her mother, who is in Venezuela, to say goodbye to her, as did many people who thought they would not survive that unexpected and violent attack by the Hamas terrorists.
“Everyone was running senseless”
“Thank God I was able to come out alive because I thought about many things. I ran for about two hours and there were missiles that could fall at any moment. Everyone was running around pointlessly, there were missiles everywhere, they were shooting; There were jeeps and motorcycles (of the terrorists). We were on foot and had no hope. I was alone running and I said I was going to fight until the end, that I was going to run until the end, until I reached the other side, where everyone was dying,” she said.
“I saw people falling from afar and people tripping over bodies. It’s a very strong scene, but I tried not to watch it as much as I could, I fainted too. It was very strong. I got to the other side of the open field, which is huge, and there they were waiting to kill us. Then, somehow, I hid among the trees, I ran through the trees, I got somewhere else. A car saved me, I liberally held on, I was like in the air, holding on to the top. “It was a truck,” he added.
The people who were traveling in that vehicle were able to put it in. “There were like 12 people inside and one on the roof who more or less guided us where to go because (the terrorists) were everywhere,” she said.
“They were killing everyone”
Thus, they arrived at a nearby city and headed towards the first building they saw. There, a religious family, who had no idea what was happening because their phones were off, opened their doors to him and offered him shelter and food. They were in that place for 10 hours, until the father of one of the young women who was in the group went to look for them to take them to her house.
“It was a whole day of not knowing what was going to happen, of not knowing if they were going to come to your door to kill you, because they were killing everyone,” said the young Venezuelan.
Sharon Truzman regretted that it took the Army so many hours to reach the site where the Supernova festival took place. There were people, she assured, who spent at least 10 hours hiding.
“If something happens to me, I love you,” said the message that the survivor sent to her mother. “I usually don’t do this because my mother lives in Venezuela and I don’t like to worry her, but I needed to write to her and I took a minute to save my life, to run, to write to her, because I felt it was prudent, I felt like I was going to die.” . Many people didn’t know what to do and called her parents to say goodbye to her. I had hoped to fight until the end, I had understood that they were going to kill us all,” she said.
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