BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – On October 7th, 2023 hundreds of Israelis were massacred at the Nova Festival in a Hamas attack.
Rom El-Hai went from dancing at the Nova Festival to ducking for cover. He spent hours listening to gunshots and those around him dying. Some of them were his friends.
He walked more than 3-miles from the festival area to the site where he was rescued. El-Hai says its terrifying when no one can help you, not even the police.
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He says there’s no difference between 9/11 and the massacre on October 7th. He feels the need to share his story because many people don’t believe what happened.
“There is a lot of anti-Semitism and people don’t believe our story. Or maybe they believe, but they think it’s just little events, people get lost, maybe they got killed by mistake, but it was not. People slaughtered there, people murdered there. The terrorist came, they kill people and they just left. And they rape women in the fields and then they slaughtering,” Nova Festival Survivor Rom El-Hai said.
365 people were murdered and dozens were taken hostage from the Nova Festival. 73 have been reported killed.
Another 97 are still being held captive and there’s 4 more hostages who were captured before the attack. El-Hai wants people to remember their names.
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