The bodies of an Israeli man and his 16-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy, victims of the shocking Hamas terrorist attack at the Nova Music Festival, were finally found.
The Nova Festival, near Sderot, was raided by gunmen who killed at least 260 people and took 199 hostage on October 7.
Erick Peretz and his daughter Ruth were located Wednesday at the festival site near Kibbutz Re’im after the state of Israel wrote in X that they were “brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists.”
Ruth was wheelchair-bound and suffered from cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy.
The father and daughter were among at least 260 Israelis massacred by Hamas.
The bodies of an Israeli and his 16-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy were finally found, victims of the shocking Hamas terrorist attack at the Nova Music Festival.
His eldest daughter, Yaarit Peretz, 26, told the Israeli site. ynet The previous Monday they discovered that this was a complete shock after what had been a good trip.
‘[My father] “I was very happy and everything was fine,” he said.
She said Peretz took Ruth to concerts and other events to cheer her up.
“For years he goes to these parties and takes Ruth, because that makes her very good and he loves it,” Yaarit said. “There were times when he would take her away and she didn’t want to come back.”
Yaarit last spoke to his father on the morning of the October 7 attack.
‘He said they barely had any coverage and he didn’t know where to go. He said that almost everyone fled and I told him that there were terrorists in the streets.
She was especially worried about Ruth, who barely speaks, eats her stomach, and needs extra special care.
Erick Peretz and his daughter Ruth (pictured left and center) were located Wednesday at the festival site near Kibbutz Re’im after the state of Israel wrote in X that they were “brutally murdered by Israeli terrorists.” Hamas.”
Ruth was wheelchair-bound and suffered from cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy.
Peretz’s oldest daughter said Peretz took Ruth to concerts and other events to cheer her up.
An aerial photograph shows the abandoned site of the weekend attack on the Supernova desert music festival by Palestinian militants near Kibbutz Reim in the Negev desert in southern Israel.
“I find it hard to believe that he will survive in Gaza,” he said at the time. She’s crazy that it’s been so long and there are still no answers.’
The festival they were attending was one of the first places attacked by Hamas when the terrorist group launched its surprise attack across the Gaza border ten days ago.
Hundreds of revelers who had attended the desert dance festival were gruesomely shot dead by Hamas. Others were kidnapped and taken to Gaza as hostages.
More than 1,400 people are known to have died in the October 7 terrorist attacks, which have since been followed by thousands of deaths in Gaza in retaliatory Israeli airstrikes.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been concentrating in preparation for a ground invasion of the Palestinian territory, but this was postponed at the last minute over the weekend amid suggestions that they had received new intelligence about the hostages taken by Hamas.
President Joe Biden visited the state of Israel on Wednesday and gave US leaders approval to launch a ground invasion of Gaza, according to a report.
Biden spent seven and a half hours in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies.
His visit came as anger spread across the region over an explosion at a Gaza hospital, which Israel blamed on a misfired Palestinian rocket and which the Pentagon confirmed. Hamas blames Israel.
Hundreds of revelers who had attended the desert dance festival were gruesomely shot dead by Hamas. Others were kidnapped and taken to Gaza as hostages.
More than 1,400 people are known to have died in the October 7 terrorist attacks, which have since been followed by thousands of deaths in Gaza in retaliation for Israeli airstrikes.
The US president told Netanyahu that he “fully” supported Israel’s plans to invade Gaza to “eradicate Hamas,” according to The times From london.
Benny Gantz, a former defense minister and IDF chief of staff who joined rival Netanyahu’s war cabinet, warned Biden that the raid could take “years.” axios reported.
Biden spoke to reporters upon his return from Israel, on Air Force One, but did not confirm US support for the invasion. The White House has not commented.
