The Iron Lions

I was at Nova. My husband Yoav and I opened our stand there, as well as celebrated our seventh anniversary. The place hosted the Unity festival the night before, so we were at our stand then and continued to the Nova festival. We were without sleep for about 30 hours. During the early morning, we started seeing blasts in the sky, and hearing loud booms, like a rain of bombs. I haven't followed the news for years, and didn't understand how Yoav didn't mention there was friction down south. Only later on did I understand this was all a surprise attack. It was like a horror movie. I was terrified. We sat on the floor, waiting for it all to be over, and it didn't end. I have no idea how much time passed, when suddenly I started fearing a missile would drop on us. I told Yoav to start folding our stand, that we have to get out of there. We started folding it like crazy, stuffing everything to the car: jewelry, stands, clothes. What usually takes 30 minutes to pack, we packed in ten. We drove off five minutes before the terrorists entered the party. On the way to Beeri there was a huge traffic jam, as if the whole party was headed there. We made a decision that in hindsight saved our lives - to turn right. After 10 minutes the people in the traffic jam were all slaughtered by terrorists that came from the direction of Beeri. We kept driving until we came across cars parking at the sides of the road and people lying on the floor not moving. Yoav told me to close my eyes and made a fast u-turn. We fled out of there. I thought it was a car accident but Yoav told me it was something much larger. After 2 minutes an update came through his military group that there had been a terrorist infiltration, and then it was clear we had to flee the terrorists. The Waze app didn't work, and we drove according to the signs, so we decided to head towards Ofakim. The road was unclear and empty. The blasts kept coming nonstop, and the booms became louder. One boom almost knocked our car. We sped up to 150 KMH. I feared every car behind us were terrorists.