Woman recounts how she survived Hamas attack while at music festival in Israel

Over two weeks since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, killing hundreds of people and kidnapping hundreds more, Local 10 News spoke to a survivor Monday who described the carnage and her terrifying escape.

“I just felt hopeless,” said Sharon Truzman. “And I’m sure everyone that survived felt hopeless.”

Truzman, 26, and her friends spent hours trying to evade heavily armed terrorists who were randomly killing people trying to escape a music festival. She spoke about the horror they had to endure to make it to safety.

What started off as a fun day of music and fun with her friends, turned into the worst day of her life.

“They were coming from everywhere,” Truzman said. “We didn’t know what to do and we were alone. There was no police, no army, nothing to protect us.”

Later that day, Israeli authorities reported that 250 people would be murdered by Hamas militants who crossed the Gaza border into Israel on Oct. 7.

Truzman told Local 10 News that when she and her friends heard the gunshots, they ran into an open field and eventually made their way to the highway and found their way into someone’s car to get away from the massacre.

Truzman said she and the two friends she went to the festival with made it out alive, but friends they met at a party there would not.

Following the attack, Truzman joined the Israel Consul General in Miami to hold a meeting and news conference alongside area lawmakers.

“This is the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, a genocidal act. This is a Holocaust-type act that reminds us of the Nazi death force,” Israeli Consul General Maor Elbaz-Starinsky said.

Truzman told Local 10 News that her mother lives in Miami and that she has lived in Israel for the past eight years.

She says she truly believed she was going to die on Oct. 7. and that she’s thought about the massacre every day.

“It was like a miracle,” Truzman said. “Every person that survived is like a miracle.”


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Saira Anwer joined the Local 10 News team in July 2018. Saira is two-time Emmy-nominated reporter and comes to South Florida from Madison, Wisconsin, where she was working as a reporter and anchor.

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