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I think about everything
that happened that day.
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Even if I don't want to
think about it, it pops up.
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I kind of dive into the
thoughts sometimes by mistake.
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At the beginning, I thought
maybe to tell my friends to...
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to leave.
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But at that point,
it was already too late.
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They're shooting at us,
and they're going to try
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to kidnap us or kill us.
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Everyone was trying
to call some authority.
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And no one was really answering.
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I remember at one point
that there was a really big
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explosion, and I flew back.
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Someone flew on me.
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And when I finally got up,
I realized that I was
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sitting in a pile of bodies.
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Car after car of dead people.
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Then you start realizing what happened.
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We survived a horrific
terror attack that didn't
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seem possible to survive.
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I've kind of understood that I'm never
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going to be the person that I
was before the 7th of October.
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And I'm trying to figure
out who I'm going to be now.
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The festival itself was amazing.
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I've not seen anything
even remotely close
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to that in Israel in years.
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Everything was perfect.
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The energy of people just
wanting to dance and enjoy
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themselves and then going at
it with all that they have,
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it was beautiful.
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There's something about seeing
a trance dance floor move.
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You feel connected.
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You feel part of something.
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You're accepted no matter who you are
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and what you're bringing.
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3,500 people went to a festival to dance
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in the nature for peace and for love.
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400 of them didn't come home.
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And they're not going to.
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In these kind of raves, you
don't really know where it is.
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And you get a location
the night of the party.
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I remember driving and
just looking out the window
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and seeing Gaza.
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And I didn't even think it was dangerous.
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We were all students
starting our fourth year.
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We all like going to parties.
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And the second Nova tickets came out,
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they were really cheap.
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Seemed like a perfect thing
to do right before
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the year started.
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When I got there and I
understood that I can see
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the fence dividing us
from Gaza from where we are,
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it was like, well,
it's been quiet for a while.
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There haven't been any missiles.
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It will probably be OK.
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So my name is Noa.
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I'm 29 years old.
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I work as a booking agent
for electronic music.
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I came to the Nova party for work.
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I brought a DJ from Hungary.
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My job was to take him to the
party, let him play his set,
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and then take him back home.
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This production was in collaboration
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with the Universo Paralello.
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It's a very big festival in Brazil.
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They were in Israel.
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It looked like we were at a
concert somewhere in Europe.
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It was... it was beautiful.
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I've met people and DJs
from all over the world.
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There are Jews and Arabs
and tourists that come in.
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You see people from
every edge of religion.
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It's not something that we notice.
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It's not something that we care about.
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Be a human being.
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Be happy, smile, dance with people,
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and you'll probably be fine in the end.
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Whoo-hoo!
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Hey!
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There's something about the moment
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that the sun rises that
you suddenly see the people
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around you, that you
suddenly see the smiles
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and that the energy comes together.
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You can actually see the dance
floor moving into a place.
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I was on the stage.
So I could actually see it.
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I looked at the person next to
me, and we were both like, wow.
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This is a test of frequency instruments.
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Bass, drums, distortion, artifacts.
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And I see a bunch of people
looking up to the sky.
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OK, probably just like seeing
the sun rise or something?
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The last video I took from my phone
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was at 6:28 in the morning.
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It was the last drop that he played.
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The moment that I stopped filming,
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someone grabbed my hand
and showed me the sky.
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He yelled into the crowd,
Tzeva Adom, Tzeva Adom.
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Everyone scattered.
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It was like a screen coming
up from the sky of rockets,
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just like whew.
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The most rockets I've
ever seen in my life.
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Oh, fuck!
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We laid on the ground.
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I was honestly scared.
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You're in an open field.
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There's rockets everywhere.
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Nothing is stopping these
rockets from falling
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exactly where I am right now.
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Whoa!
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Whoo.
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Whoa.
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We were parked in the artists' VIP area.
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The big parking was a little bit more in.
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So we were very close to the road.
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We could get out very quickly.
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I went to the DJ, and I told him, listen,
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there's no time for goodbyes.
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There's no time for waiting.
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We're running to the car.
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We're going to leave.
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And we were driving on Route 232.
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On the way north, we passed Be'eri.
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I'd close the windows and put on music
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so that we don't hear
what's going on outside,
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and we were driving.
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Rockets were exploding over our heads.
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We didn't understand if
we're safe or we're not safe.
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We stop at the side of the road.
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We see the migunit, concrete structure
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on the side of the road that is supposed
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to be as close to a bomb
shelter as possible.
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And it seemed like the smartest move
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to make, to go into the migunit.
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Whoo!
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When we got to about 200
meters before the first thing,
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we took the turn.
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The two cars that were in front
of me suddenly hit the brakes.
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At first, it looked like an accident.
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So my first instinct was, you need
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to get out and help someone.
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So I opened my door.
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And the moment I opened my
door, I heard the first bullet.
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At this point, no one
knows that there's terrorists
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that entered Israel.
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I think there was about
19 people in migunit.
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It's a tiny structure.
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There's not that much
room to move inside.
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Some of the people are
still standing outside just
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to look at the rockets.
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And then slowly,
more and more people come.
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Finally, four people arrived.
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One of them was Aner Shapiro.
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And one of them was Hersh Goldberg.
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Aner was very confident.
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I remember it.
He walked in.
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He told us that there's a big
attack on Israel from Gaza.
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He didn't really elaborate too much.
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My... my heart jumped a beat.
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And I realized that something
bad is about to happen.
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I felt it so deep in my
stomach that I didn't even
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know what to do or how to react.
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At the beginning, I thought maybe
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to tell my friends to leave
so they get in the car
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and drive away.
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But at that point,
it was already too late.
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The only thing between
me and the terrorists
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were my car doors.
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There were a few moments
where I thought I was dead.
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The only reason that
they missed is by chance.
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Something was protecting us.
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I don't have a word for it.
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But I thought I was dead.
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I was either dead,
or I was very, very hurt
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and I wasn't feeling it.
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If I'm not feeling any pain,
then I'm probably dead.
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That was the math I did in my head.
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I looked at my hands and understood
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that I was still alive and
that we need to do something.
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And then I just yelled,
"Get in the car."
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[car horn honking
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I looked in the back mirror,
and I could see the car
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behind me that had stopped.
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The driver and the guy
that were next to him
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were shot in the head.
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And I saw them slaughter people.
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Every car that had come
towards us had either been
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show off the road... and you
could actually see cars just
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going off the road in a moment.
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And then people tried
to run out of the cars,
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and there were terrorists
shooting them down.
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Whoo!
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Tuck your heads down.
Tuck your heads down.
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After we... we had gone
out of the shooting range,
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I called the police.
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And the first question
they asked me was, "What?
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What do you mean
they shot at you?"
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No one understood the situation.
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A group of people jump out,
screaming in Arabic.
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Aner tried to calm everyone
down as much as possible.
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And then they started firing
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at the entrance of the migunit.
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Lobed, he went outside and tried
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to talk to them in Arabic.
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They did horrible things to him
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and murdered him in the end.
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Everyone in the migunit was trying
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to call some authority, MDA or the cops
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or the army or someone.
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No one was really answering.
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And then I see Aner just picked
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them up and tossed them out.
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And he does that once, and
then they throw another one in.
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Every time they throw in a grenade,
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he just grabbed it and tossed it out.
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He acted like a commander.
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He took all the
responsibility onto himself.
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He was focused.
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He... he understood that he had a mission.
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All he was looking for was
to fight, to stay alive.
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I'm thinking to myself, oh, my God,
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this kid is throwing live grenades.
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I don't think that I've ever heard
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of anyone ever doing that.
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I know how dangerous this is.
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I think there's a chance that
he's not the only one that's
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going to have to do this.
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And I kind of get myself
ready for the point
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where if something happens to
him, that I'm going to have
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to pick up what he left.
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There was a really big
explosion, and I flew back.
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Someone flew on me.
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And when I finally got up, I remember
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Aner wasn't standing anymore.
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He wasn't with us.
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Hersh lost his hand.
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And he was just sitting there.
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He said, "I lost my hand.
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I don't have my hand."
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And he was trying to, like, tie it off.
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At that point, I kind of realized
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that someone's going to have
to continue what he started.
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And then I remember a grenade flying in,
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just landing right in front of me.
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And you could see the flame coming
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out of the top of the grenade.
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And it was a few inches.
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And I remember it getting
smaller and smaller.
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And I just picked up
the grenade and threw it out.
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And I'm not sure how many
of those there were.
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I remember the first one,
and I remember the last two.
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The one at the entrance I remember
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I was able to throw out.
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But then there was an explosion.
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I went flying into
the wall and passed out.
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Hey, hey, hey!
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Shup, shup.
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Pew, pew.
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You know, Russian roulette.
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Who gets the bullet?
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At that point,
they started kidnapping people.
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They took Hersh out because
he was at the entrance.
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They started putting them in
the trucks wherever they could
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and whoever they tried to kidnap.
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I remember seeing a terrorist walk in.
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He was wearing all black.
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He had a black mask on, an AK-47,
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and a green bandanna on his
head with the Hamas symbol.
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I remember you could see
his mouth through the mask,
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like he had a little opening.
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And he was smiling, like it
was a game that they won.
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They came back in.
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And then they started
shooting everyone inside.
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They left.
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I looked left and right.
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And I thought everyone was acting
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or playing dead so that
they wouldn't get kidnapped.
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But after a minute or two, where... when
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people weren't lifting
their heads or waking up,
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I realized that I was
sitting in a pile of bodies.
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Fuck.
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We were there for another six hours.
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Six hours in piles of bodies,
praying to God
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that no one... no terrorists
come back and just
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look or pop in their head.
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We both got into an army Jeep.
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And they told us to put our heads down.
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But I... I couldn't look away.
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Car after car with dead people.
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Then you start realizing what happened.
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We survived a horrific terror attack that
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didn't seem possible to survive.
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I'm still coping.
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I don't know.
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Like, I can find myself
crying in the middle
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of the day for no reason.
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Sleeping has become a mission.
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Every single person
that I lost on that day
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would have made the
hell out of this life.
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And for them, I need to continue living.
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We are going to need to go
through mountains of pain
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until we get there.
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But I close my eyes for a moment,
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and I picture my friends
that aren't with us
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anymore and hoping that...
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That wherever they are,
they're partying like crazy,
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and that one day we will, too.