Yuval (23) survived the Hamas attack – hidden under corpses in a small bunker: “If you go outside, you are dead!”

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They were moments of horror: fifty people fled to a small bunker during the attack by Hamas terrorists on the Supernova festival in the Israeli desert. Only eleven survived – including Yuval Raphael (23).

“It was a very nice festival, my girlfriend and I had been looking forward to it for a long time,” is how the young woman describes the atmosphere at the “Tages-Anzeiger”. But then it tilted – the music stopped, sirens sounded and Yuval Raphael recognized missiles. Terrorists are on their way here, her colleague said. They fled and took refuge in a small bunker.

“If I go outside now, I’ll be dead.”

“We were fifty people in a bunker for about ten people,” says Yuval. She sat down in the back corner and then it became very quiet. Two seconds later, shots broke the silence. The terrorists kept coming and shooting into the crowd: “We could hear their cars when they came back.”

Yuval hid under corpses. “My leg was twisted under a young woman and started to hurt.” But she couldn’t move. “It felt like my leg was going to break.” She thought about just getting up, but her friends stopped her. “They said if I got up and went outside now, I would be dead,” she says of the terrible moments.

“We had to climb over dead bodies”

She lay there for seven hours. Then someone shouted the name of someone in the bunker. The survivors realized: they had been saved. But the worst was not over yet: “The ground was covered with corpses. To get out we had to climb over the dead.”

The most terrible hours of her life still haunt Yuval Raphael. She processes what she experienced in therapy. “I dream about what I went through, but I never wake up.” In addition, she went to a group meeting with other survivors almost every day, she told the ‘Tages-Anzeiger’.

Fight against anti-Semitism

The young woman spoke about the attack on October 7 at a meeting in Zurich. A survivor of an attacked kibbutz also shared his story. He survived by fighting a terrorist for the doorknob. Armed only with a knife and dressed in underwear, he barricaded himself with his family.

The two Israelis came to Zurich at the invitation of four private individuals. In October they had already organized a rally with around 1,500 participants. They also want to draw attention to anti-Semitism in Switzerland. (jl/sda)

Source: Blick