Massacre Survivor: I Hid in Shower as Hamas Slaughtered My Boyfriend

When 23-year-old Tamar Kam heard gunshots followed by a man speaking Hebrew, she thought it was the Israel Defense Forces arriving to save her.

Instead, Kam—who was hiding in a shower after climbing through the window of a stranger’s home—had just listened to her boyfriend being murdered.

The young couple were in the desert area near the Gaza border last weekend for the Supernova Festival, an all-night rave meant to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot. They had traveled to the small southern Israeli suburb of Kibbutz Re’im, roughly a 90-minute drive south from their hometown of Petah Tikvah, expecting to let loose. But when Hamas militants attacked the gathering just after 6 a.m. on Saturday, slaughtering some 260 revelers, the two fled for their lives.

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