Hired to cater for an all-night Israeli music festival, Rada and Raif Rashed fled for their lives just after dawn, when Hamas militants rampaged through the crowd on Oct. 7 turning the celebration into a place of horror.
The brothers saw partygoers falling around them as 250 people were killed in the surprise cross-border attack that precipitated the worst
Rada and his brother Raif, 39, were caterers at the Nova festival, close to Gaza, when the Hamas gunmen arrived. Both are from Israel's Druze Arab minority, a sect whose faith draws its roots from Islam."Bullets were hitting near my face. I don't know how. The girls around were shot down, and I was waiting to get hit. Then I saw a hole, like it was dug by someone. We went into it," Rada said. "We stayed there until the shooting stopped for a while.
"I understand Arabic, you know, I heard them, and I don't understand why it's really happening here at this time," Raif said.
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