On October 7, the Hamas attack in Israel was marked by that of a music festival. More than a month after the attack, Raz Peri was released from the hospital.
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With our special correspondents in Tel Aviv, Murielle Paradon and Boris Vicith
He has difficulty standing and appears very weak. Raz Peri, 23, was injured on his way to the music festival near the border with Gaza, October 7. Around 6 a.m., when Hamas men burst into this musical meeting, he took refuge with others in a shelter. At the same time, a barrage of missiles marks the start of operation “Al-aqsa Flood”, carefully prepared by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
More than a month after this trauma, his memories are a little confused. But he says he fought back and managed to escape. He still bears the scars of this violence today. “ I was shot in the stomach, shot in my back and I have grenade fragments in my leg. When I went outside to get help, what happened next in the shelter was that they fired RPGs, and the people who were in there died. I survived, I’m the only survivor “, he says.
“I’m sure it will be fine »
The young man appears very combative despite what he experienced on October 7, he who also suffers from cancer, he tells us. “ I have cancer. Why did I go to this festival? To feel good. I pray every day to dance again, it’s my dream. My dreams are focused on the future. What I wish for will come true”, confides the young man. And to add: “I’m sure it will be fine “.
Raz Peri still wants to believe in the positive values that the music festival conveyed. 260 people died during the Tribe of Nova festival, a must for the vibrant Israeli techno community, where more than 3,000 people participated on October 6 and 7. Nearly one in ten people never came back. And in total, nearly 1,200 people died on October 7 in Israel.
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