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Black Saturday

10/07/2023
Nova Festival

Beginning of the Hamas terrorist attacks and rocket attacks at the Israeli border.

kibbutz Reim
06:29
Nova Festival
Shani's mother receives a voice message from Shani. Shani says there are many missiles and the ground is shaking. Shani, Ben and Gali (Shani's childhood friends) get into Shani's car and start driving north, towards home, via Road 232.
kibbutz Reim
06:37
Safe in the shelter
Shani's mother calls her and asks about her well-being. Shani says that she's in a bomb shelter, together with her friends. They are waiting for the sirens to stop and then will continue driving home.
Alumim Junction
07:00
Dead in the shelter
Four grenades were thrown into the shelter. People exploded in all directions, Shani's friends were severely injured and lost consciousness, Shani was lightly injured by shrapnel. Shani called her mother and told her about everything happening, and that her friends were likely no longer alive. A video from a death shelter.
Alumim Junction
07:15
On Life and Death
Voices of terrorists everywhere and Shani's friends are still unconscious and unresponsive. Shani is certain they were killed by the grenades, and she starts running back towards her car. During the run, she was shot in her left leg by 2-3 bullets.
Alumim Junction
07:20
What to do?
Shani reaches her car, starts it up and begins driving south, back towards the festival. On the way, she calls her mother and tells her that there are militants everywhere, and that her friends are dead
232 Road
07:25
Help please
Shani encounters a group of young people who left the festival heading north (towards the Alumim Junction) on that same deadly road. She immediately stops her vehicle and receives first aid from them. A video in which Shani is pulled out of the car.
232 Road
07:47
Evacuation vehicle
Shani gets into an evacuation vehicle together with a security guard from the party, who will take her to the "Safe Zone" at the festival, where an ambulance is waiting to transport her to "Soroka” Hospital for medical treatment.
232 Road
07:50
So who helped who?
That group of young people fled from north to south. But when they saw Shani, who was heading the other way, injured, they realized they needed to run eastward altogether. A picture of the map surrounding Gaza and Shani's aid.
232 Road
07:52
“Safe Zone”
Shani arrives at the party's infirmary. The ambulance prioritizes patients in more critical conditions than Shani, so she has to wait for the next evacuation. In the meantime, she received a small dose of morphine to ease the pain
kibbutz Reim
07:57
Here they are again

The terrorists are getting closer and closer. Shani moves from the "Safe Zone" to the police station. Nimrod Maimon and Liron Barda may she rest in peace, lift Shani onto their shoulders and carry her to the Festival's police station. Inside the station, they find more civilians hiding, along with two police officers.

kibbutz Reim
08:15
Tourniquet
Still inside the Festival's police station. Michal Ohana and Li'am Bor may he rest in peace perform two artery compressions on Shani. Once with Michal's scarf and the second time with Shani's belt
kibbutz Reim
08:23
Be quiet

Still inside the Festival's police station. More people arrive at the building in order to find shelter.. Shani, lying on the floor, injured in her leg.. Asking everyone to be a little quieter, maybe the terrorists won't notice them..

Kibbutz Reim
08:40
Speaks to Shani
Still in the Festival's police station. Shani's brother, Aviel, talks to Shani on the phone. Aviel is reassured to hear that Shani is near many people and that there are two police officers nearby. However, Shani expresses that she doesn't feel safe at all and that there is a war going on outside the Festival's police station. As the conversation ends, gunfire erupts
kibbutz Reim
08:53
Simchat Torah
The terrorists are getting even closer. One of the police officers in the station shouted - "Simchat Torah today! Whoever wants to survive, pray hard and start running!" From that moment, everyone fled from the Festival's police station
kibbutz Reim
09:00
Last help
While running away, Shani is being assisted by several girls to reach an ambulance parked nearby, about 100 meters from the Festival's police station
kibbutz Reim
09:04
Last video
Noam Shalom may she rest in peace films a video outside the ambulance, in which we see Shani Gabay, Lior Atun, Karin Jorno, and Moriah Or Sweisa may they rest in peace
kibbutz Reim
09:12
The end
The terrorists seized control of the party area. Sixteen people sought cover inside the abandoned ambulance and underneath it. The terrorists threw grenades into it, shot at those lying underneath, and finally fired an RPG missile that incinerated the ambulance. Fourteen people were killed inside the ambulance
kibbutz Reim
09:25