A survivor of the October 7 massacre has recounted the unspeakable atrocities he witnessed as Hamas terrorists raped and killed their victims.
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Yoni Saadon, 39, who survived the Supernova Peace Festival by hiding under corpses, now wakes up at night haunted by the faces of the massacred women, one of whom had “the face of an angel.”
During the attack, Yoni took refuge under a music stage. But a woman hiding next to him was discovered by the terrorists.
“She fell to the ground, shot me in the head and I pulled her body on top of me and splattered her blood on me to make it look like I was dead too,” the survivor told the Sunday Times.
“I will never forget his face. “Every night I wake up with this face and I apologize to her and say ‘I’m sorry,'” he added.
Remember that more than 250 festival-goers lost their lives in Hamas’ surprise attack.
Gang rape
Unmovable under the woman’s body, Yoni Saadon was unfortunately not yet at the end of his worries. An hour later, a new scene of horror unfolded before his eyes.
“I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or ten fighters beating and raping her. The woman screamed “Stop!” and begged the terrorists to kill her to end her suffering,” he said.
“When they finished they laughed and the last one shot him in the head,” he added.
Yoni, a father of four, admitted that his thoughts continue to torment him, reminding him that it could have been one of his daughters or his sister who withdrew from participating in the festival at the last minute.
Decapitated victim
However, the horror didn’t stop there. Yoni hid in the bushes and saw two other Hamas fighters grabbing a woman.
“She struggled and stopped them from taking them off,” he recalls. “They threw her to the ground and one of the terrorists took a shovel and beheaded her.”
Yoni told the Sunday Times her story at a support group for festival survivors in Sitria, southeast of Tel Aviv.
Three times a week, survivors from all over Israel meet with parents whose children were massacred.