CNN —A split-second decision to run and hide in an orange grove could be the very thing that saved 22-year-old Gal Katz’s life, after Hamas militants unleashed a harrowing assault on an Israeli music festival in the early hours of Saturday.
As gunmen approached, festival-goer Katz and a friend fled for the nearby grove, where they hid for around six hours.
Katz’s other friends at the festival, however, did not survive — killed by terrorists who found them inside a security shelter.
I figured if it was something serious, [music festival security] would end the party and tell us what to do.
The terrorists aren’t interested in orange groves — they’re looking for houses, they’re looking for cities, they’re looking for settlements.
Persons:
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Organizations:
CNN, Nova Festival, AKs, AK, Gatz CNN
Locations:
Gaza, Israel