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one Israeli survivor Hamas attack on new star Music Festival on 7th October 2023 He is found dead two years after witnessing the murder of his girlfriend and friend.
Roi Shalev, 30, wrote on social media, “I just want this suffering to end. I’m alive, but everything inside is dead”, and apologized.
Concerned family members and friends began searching for him, but his body was recovered hours later by emergency services from inside a burning car.
Shalev was attending the concert with his girlfriend Maple Adams and his friend Hilly Solomon when Hamas militants crossed the border Gaza And carried out a violent attack Which ultimately took the lives of 1,200 people.
The trio managed to escape by car but encountered a young woman covered in blood who told them that Hamas gunmen were after her, so they decided to get out of their vehicle and hide under two abandoned cars.
Mr Shalev tried to shield his 26-year-old girlfriend from the bullets but she was killed along with Miss Solomon, while he was shot twice in the back.
He lay under the car for the next seven hours, pretending to be dead until Israeli forces found him.
As a result of the attack, his mother took her own life a week later.
Roi previously said, “In just one week, I lost three of the most important women in the world.”
“In the months that followed, I struggled to cope. Flashbacks and anxiety plagued me and sleep became a distant memory.”
Over the next two years, he has organized events in memory of Miss Adam and Miss Solomon, and renamed his family bakery the ‘Maple Café’ in tribute to their “only love”.
On the second anniversary of his girlfriend’s death, Roi wrote on Instagram: “Two years have passed since the most terrible day of my life and that of the entire country.
“The desire for you keeps on increasing, the pain does not subside with time. It happens always, everywhere, all the time. This year I am full of pain, even more than last year.”
Addressing both her and Hilly, he said: “A huge apology that I couldn’t keep you safe on this terrible day, you know I did everything, I did everything to keep you safe, my dear.
“I preferred to die in pain and you to live.”
Three days after the anniversary, he posted on his Instagram page that he “can’t walk anymore”, and that his pain was “eating me up inside”.
Hamas militants killed more than 370 people at the Nova music festival, while another 251 people were taken hostage either at the event or in the surrounding area in the south. israel,
Israel responded by launching a major military offensive. More than 67,000 Palestinians killed in GazaAccording to the region’s Hamas-run health ministry.
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