36-year-old Alina Master survived the horrific massacre by Hamas at the festival grounds in southern Israel by pretending to be dead for five hours.
TV4 News’ Terese Cristiansson has met her in a hospital in Israel.
– I can still smell burnt meat and the blood of my friends, she tells TV4 Nyheterna.
More and more stories are coming out of the festival grounds that were attacked by Hamas last Saturday. Many injured people have been able to return home and tell what they have been through.
TV4’s team met the 36-year-old mother of one, Alina Master, in a hospital in southern Israel, shortly after she was discharged. She was one of thousands of visitors to the music festival where at least 260 people were killed in the attack. Alina survived by lying under her dead friends for five hours, she tells the TV4 News team.
– I am so happy that I am alive and can tell you this. It was a massacre. 1,000 terrorists who killed people who were happy and celebrating life, says Alina who is in a hospital in southern Israel.
– Yesterday was the first time I could see the sky. The last time I saw the sky it was just gunfire and bombs, it was like raining bombs and bullets. It didn’t stop. You could no longer see the sky. I can still feel the stench of the burning bodies and the blood of my friends, she continues.
The father: “I have no words”
Alina’s father, Gennadi Master, is with her in the hospital and tells how he tried to get to the festival grounds to get his daughter out, but she asked him to stay home. It was only later that he realized what Alina had gone through.
– I have no words, it was a shock. I’m reasonably okay, but I haven’t been able to tell her mother, or her son what she’s been through. But now we have to explain to the whole world what happened, because they don’t know, says the father.
Thousands of victims since the attack
The three-day-old war between Hamas and Israel has reportedly claimed thousands of lives. Israel and Hamas have continued to shell each other since the terror-labeled group launched its surprise attack on Saturday.
At least 1,800 people have now been killed on both sides and over 7,000 have been injured.