The bodies of an Israeli man and his 16-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy, victims of Hamas’ shocking terror attack on the Nova Music Festival, have finally been found.
The Nova Festival near Sderot was stormed by armed men who killed at least 260 people and took 199 hostage on October 7.
Erick Peretz and daughter Ruth were located on Wednesday at the festival site near the Re’im Kibbutz after the State of Israel wrote on X that they had been “brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists.”
Ruth was wheelchair bound and suffered from cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy.
The father and daughter are among at least 260 Israelis slaughtered by Hamas.
The bodies of an Israeli man and his 16-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy, victims of Hamas’ shocking terror attack on the Nova Music Festival, have finally been found
Older daughter Yaarit Peretz, 26, told the Israeli site Ynet The previous Monday it turned out that this was a complete shock after a good trip.
“(My father) was very happy and everything was fine,” she said.
She said Peretz would take Ruth to concerts and other events to cheer her up.
“For years he has been going to these parties and bringing Ruth along because it really does her good and she loves it,” Yaarit said. “There were times when he took her away and she didn’t want to go back.”
Yaarit last spoke to her father on the morning of the October 7 attack.
‘He said they barely had reception and he didn’t know where to go. He said almost everyone was running away and I told him there were terrorists on the street.”
She was especially concerned about Ruth, who is mostly nonverbal, eats through her stomach and needs extra special care.
Erick Peretz and daughter Ruth (left and center in photo) were found at the festival site near the Re’im Kibbutz on Wednesday after the State of Israel wrote on X that they had been “brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists.”
Ruth was wheelchair bound and suffered from cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy
Peretz’s eldest daughter said Peretz would take Ruth to concerts and other events to cheer her up
An aerial view shows the deserted site of the weekend attack on the Supernova Desert Music Festival by Palestinian militants near Kibbutz Reim in the Negev Desert of southern Israel
“I find it hard to believe that she will survive in Gaza,” she said at the time. It’s crazy that so much time has passed and there are still no answers.”
The festival they attended was one of the first places Hamas targeted when the terrorist group launched its surprise attack across the Gaza border 10 days ago.
Hundreds of partygoers who had attended the desert dance festival were brutally shot by Hamas. Others were kidnapped and taken back to Gaza as hostages.
More than 1,400 people are known to have died in the October 7 terrorist attacks, which have since been followed by thousands of deaths in Gaza in retaliation by Israeli airstrikes.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been massing in preparation for a ground invasion of Palestinian territory, but this was postponed at the last minute over the weekend amid suggestions that they had received new intelligence about hostages taken by Hamas.
President Joe Biden visited the state of Israel on Wednesday and gave US leaders permission to launch a ground invasion of Gaza, a report said.
Biden spent seven and a half hours in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies.
His visit came as anger spread across the region over an explosion at a hospital in Gaza, which Israel blamed on a failed Palestinian rocket and which the Pentagon confirmed. Hamas blames Israel.
Hundreds of partygoers who had attended the desert dance festival were brutally shot by Hamas. Others were kidnapped and taken back to Gaza as hostages
More than 1,400 people are known to have died in the October 7 terrorist attacks, which have since been followed by thousands of deaths in Gaza in retaliation by Israeli airstrikes.
The US president told Netanyahu that he “fully supported” Israel’s plans to invade Gaza and “eradicate Hamas.” The times from London.
Benny Gantz, a former defense minister and IDF chief of staff who has joined his rival Netanyahu’s war cabinet, warned Biden that the raid could take “years.” Axios reported.
Biden spoke to reporters on his way back from Israel, on Air Force One, but did not confirm US support for the invasion. The White House has not commented.