Sunday, October 15, 2023

‘I knew it’s either I hit him or I die’: Re’im rave survivor recounts daring decision

The two terrorists were just ahead of him, spraying gunfire from their motorcycle at passing cars. One was driving, the 50-year-old man said, and the other sat behind, shooting at any target he saw. At least one wore body armor.

“He didn’t see me,” Michael Silberberg said. So Silberberg made a decision.

He and two friends had already managed to escape the slaughter at the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, where hundreds of terrorists from the Palestinian group Hamas had swarmed through crowds, killing at least 260 people and taking an unknown number hostage.

They survived another attack a few minutes later, with two hiding in a roadside air-raid shelter while the other hid outside.

Soon after that, they were driving away in Silberberg’s car, trying to get far from the massacre, when they saw the motorcycle. READ MORE