Nova Pageant survivor shares how God saved her from Hamas

WASHINGTON — Noa Beer did not consider in God till she discovered herself surrounded by Hamas terrorists on the Nova Music Pageant bloodbath on Oct. 7, 2023, and despite the fact that they had been trying proper at her and firing, none of their bullets struck her. 

The 30-year-old survivor guided The Christian Put up by means of an unique preview of the Nova Music Pageant Exhibition on Thursday, which tells the story of the dance occasion that grew to become the positioning of a bloodbath in southern Israel carried out by Hamas, a terror group that has managed the neighboring Gaza Strip since 2007. The exhibit opens Saturday in Washington, D.C., and runs till July 6.

As Beer walked by means of the exhibit, she shared what she witnessed when murderous terrorists interrupted the competition and detailed how she managed to flee as lots of of occasion attendees had been slaughtered or kidnapped.

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Tenting space 

The sounds of gunfire and the wail of a number of automotive horns blasting, adopted by the cruel voices of Hamas militants shouting “Allahu Akbar!” reverberated by means of the Gallery Place entryway, which at present homes the Nova Music Pageant Exhibition. 

Earlier than stepping inside, Beer stated the primary room was the one one which she couldn’t information CP by means of, as she has post-traumatic stress dysfunction as a result of assault.

CP walked by means of the primary part alone, which resembled an deserted tenting floor. 

Tents, garden chairs, snack baggage and digital gadgets littered the first-floor room, and the odor of smoke stuffed the air. Later, Beer stated that folks left their belongings behind on the competition website once they had been compelled to flee, and people gadgets are actually on show as a part of the exhibit.

Leaves and sand crunched underfoot as guests walked by means of the exhibit corridor, with footage of the Hamas assault on the competition taking part in on video screens and cell telephones. The burnt stays of vehicles all through the room instructed a narrative with out phrases in regards to the attendees murdered by terrorists whereas making an attempt to flee of their autos. 

In between scenes of the Oct. 7 onslaught had been partitions of textual content explaining what occurred on the competition website and video testimonials from survivors.

On the finish of the primary room, a wall of textual content describes the mass sexual assaults Hamas dedicated throughout the Nova Music Pageant bloodbath. The show featured a quote from Rami Davidian, a civilian who led a rescue effort to avoid wasting competition attendees, who stated he noticed bare ladies in sexually compromising positions. 

In his testimony, Davidian described reducing the our bodies down from bushes and protecting them earlier than saying the prayer Sh’ma Yisrael over them. 

“Sadly, many of the sexual assaults ended within the individual being assaulted useless,” Beer instructed CP outdoors of the primary exhibit corridor. “So we do not have a number of dwell individuals to truly inform us precisely what occurred, however we do have individuals who noticed issues that occurred. We do have a number of voice recordings from conditions that occurred.” 

The Nova Music Pageant survivor stated the sexual assaults are “among the many most horrible issues that occurred that day.” Beer careworn that the assaults had “nothing to do with battle” and had been only a “crime in opposition to humanity.” 

Noa Beer’s story

A short video adopted the tenting floor part, displaying footage of competition attendees of assorted ages and ethnicities dancing collectively and smiling earlier than the assault started. After the video concluded, Beer shared extra of her story with CP as she led the way in which upstairs to the following room. 

The survivor labored as a reserving agent, and he or she attended the Nova Music Pageant in October 2023 alongside a Hungarian DJ whom she had helped schedule to play a set on the occasion. The DJ, who can be a pal of hers, survived the assault, however like Beer, he additionally carries the burden of the horrors he witnessed that day. 

“One of many issues that folks want to know is that this was a bloodbath,” Beer instructed CP. “[Hamas] got here there with just one function: They got here to kill, and they didn’t care how or who.”  

Earlier than the violent onslaught that claimed the lives of practically 400 competition attendees, Beer remembered seeing so many “stunning individuals” ages 19 by means of 60, “dancing collectively in concord.” 

“So many hugs on the dance ground and so many smiling individuals,” the survivor recalled. “We had been individuals who went to a music competition to bop. None of us got here to bop on occupied land, or for battle or needed to kill anybody. No, we got here to bop like anybody else would at some other competition anyplace else on this planet.” 

The competition environment modified after Beer’s pal completed taking part in his set. The 2 determined to remain and benefit from the occasion, however round 6:30 a.m., a safety guard drew the reserving agent’s consideration upward, the place a stream of rockets had lit up the sky. 

“I understood that we would have liked to cease the music as a result of individuals didn’t know what was occurring,” Beer stated, explaining that the competition music had been so loud that many did not hear the rockets launched from Gaza. 

After shutting off the music, Beer yelled, “Pink alert!” into the gang, after which she went to search for her DJ backstage. Because of the lack of bomb shelters close by, she instructed the DJ to lie down on the bottom along with his fingers over his head, anticipating the rocket barrage to finish after a minute or two. 

“However it went on and on,” the survivor defined. “It wasn’t stopping. I may really feel the bottom shaking from the missiles. It was terrifying, however on the time, all we knew was that there have been missiles within the sky, and we would have liked to lie down on the bottom.” 

After a number of minutes, a safety guard finally took the microphone on stage and instructed everybody to go away the premises. On the time, it appeared like a routine rocket assault, and desirous to keep away from a site visitors jam, Beer prompt to her DJ pal that they head again to the automotive and depart shortly. 

“We had been driving north for about 10 minutes, and there have been vehicles round us,” the survivor recalled. “Some vehicles had been stopping in bomb shelters on the way in which. I do not know what came to visit me, however I had a really unhealthy intestine feeling, and I did not need to go right into a shelter. That ended up saving our lives.” 

‘An angel guarding me’

Those that had sought refuge in bomb shelters had no thought on the time that armed Hamas terrorists would begin taking pictures and hurling grenades at them. The survivors who made it out alive hid beneath bloody corpses for hours or performed useless.

Ten minutes into the drive, Beer noticed one of many two vehicles in entrance of her all of the sudden hit the brakes, and the second car slammed proper into the primary one. Beer had served as a medic within the Israeli navy, so she determined to go over and provide help. 

“I opened my automotive door, and the very first thing that occurred after a second of me opening the automotive door was {that a} bullet flew proper subsequent to me,” the survivor stated. “After which one other one and one other one. I raised my eyes, and I noticed there was a terrorist about 20 meters in entrance of us, simply taking pictures at us like loopy.” 

Beer did not understand at first that the person taking pictures at her and the DJ was a terrorist as a result of he was carrying a stolen Israeli Protection Forces uniform. Because the bullets stored flying, she understood then that they had been below assault by terrorists.

One element in regards to the terrorists that she remembered vividly was how joyful all of them appeared as they tried to kill her. Beer recalled how one of many terrorists even had an enormous smile on his face as he shot at her.

“And I am considering to myself, how evil can an individual be? I’ve nothing to defend myself with. You are having fun with your self, you are laughing,” she stated. 

On the street, Beer noticed three injured individuals crawling on the bottom towards her, and he or she allow them to into the again seat of her automotive. The DJ who attended the competition was additionally within the automotive, and similar to Beer, no bullets had hit him. 

“I actually, to today, can say that there was an angel guarding me as a result of the bullets had hit the whole lot round me besides me,” the survivor stated. 

Hitting the gasoline, Beer drove away as Hamas militants fired at her automotive and different autos stuffed with individuals attempting to flee the competition. Whereas Beer was unharmed, two of the passengers she had picked up on the street had been shot. She drove East to a close-by hospital, the place the strangers she had picked up acquired medical consideration.

Earlier than the Nova Music Pageant bloodbath, Beer stated that she did not consider in God however now feels as if she should, not seeing some other clarification for her survival.

“They had been trying straight at me and taking pictures straight at me, and so they missed,” the survivor stated. “So if there is not a God, then it is one thing else, however I am guessing it is a God.”