{"id":2081957,"date":"2023-10-28T04:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T08:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maya-izoutcheevs-harrowing-escape-from-israeli-music-festival-attacked-by-hamas-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2023-10-28T04:17:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T08:17:40","slug":"maya-izoutcheevs-harrowing-escape-from-israeli-music-festival-attacked-by-hamas-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maya-izoutcheevs-harrowing-escape-from-israeli-music-festival-attacked-by-hamas-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Izoutcheev&#8217;s daring escape from Hamas attack at Israeli music festival."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaya-izoutcheevs-harrowing-escape-from-israeli-music-festival-attacked-by-hamas-terrorists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2081957&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>EXCLUSIVE: \u2063Maya Izoutcheev&#8217;s Survival Story: Escaping the Horror of a\u200d Terrorist Attack<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The first thing you should know\u200c about Maya Izoutcheev is she loves God, country, \u2062and her family.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A 29-year-old born in the southern Israeli city of Be&#8217;er Sheva, Maya&#8217;s grandparents\u2062 fled during the Holocaust from the occupied\u200d Soviet Union, where Nazis and\u2064 their allies\u200b murdered millions of Jews. The second thing to know about Maya is she has her own survival story \u2014 one of the brave\u200c souls who narrowly escaped an Oct. 7 \u200cmusic festival in the Jewish state that ended in Hamas terrorists\u2063 raping, abducting, and killing 260 innocent attendees. This is that story.<\/p>\n<h3>Maine Shooting: Gov. Janet Mills Announces 18 People\u200c Killed in Mass Shooting<\/h3>\n<p>In an\u200c interview with the Washington Examiner,\u200d Maya detailed \u200bher hourslong experience &#8220;running for\u2062 our lives&#8221; with her friend Sagi Gabay, 28, \u200cfollowing \u200dthe Hamas attack on the open-air Supernova Sukkot Gathering \u200dwith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-middle-east-failure\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Middle East Failure\">rocket-propelled grenades<\/a> and AK-47 assault rifles. The terrorists arrived \u2062in vans and donned military uniforms, leaving up\u200c to 4,000 festival attendees scrambling and, in some cases, hiding underneath dead bodies and covering themselves with the blood \u200bof the fallen to fake dead.<\/p>\n<p>Most festivalgoers\u2063 were\u200b from Israel, others from the United\u200d States, England, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Since Oct. 7, there have been over 1,400 deaths and 5,400 \u200cinjuries in Israel, according \u200dto Israeli officials. At least 33 U.S. citizens are dead in connection to \u2062the Israel-Gaza \u200cconflict,\u200d while an unknown number of Americans are considered \u200dto be held\u200b hostage by Hamas, the\u2062 State Department said this week. Hamas says over 7,000 have been killed in Gaza, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cia-director-critics-slam-biden-over-move-to-pursue-iran-on-nuclear-deal-absolutely-chokes\/\" title=\"Former CIA Director, Critics Slam Biden Over Move To Pursue Iran On Nuclear Deal: \u2018Absolutely Chokes\u2019\">national security experts<\/a> say the number is unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>Maya, a contract manager at an engineering company and bartender, worked as a bouncer at the festival. She finished her \u2063shift on\u200b Oct. 7 at roughly 6:15 a.m., changed into sneakers, and watched the sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen minutes later, at 6:30 a.m., Maya and Sagi went to find \u200btheir friends in\u200b a small camping area.<\/p>\n<p>The group met up. At that same time, they started to hear rockets overhead,\u200c which Maya told the \u200dWashington \u200bExaminer\u2063 didn&#8217;t feel immediately\u2064 &#8220;irregular,&#8221; given Israel \u200bis \u2064under constant threat and uses the Iron \u200bDome air defense system \u200dto thwart attacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Ducks being shot at&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Suddenly, the thumping music stopped,\u2064 and attendees began evacuating at the direction of the festival&#8217;s organizers. &#8220;Guys, we have a red alert,&#8221; \u200ba voice warned over the loudspeakers. &#8220;Red alert.\u201d\u200b Crowds disbursed and glanced at the cream-colored sky.\u200d Seven white rocket\u2062 flashes appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Maya and Sagi split from their friends, who arrived in different cars. The two began driving away from the festival area \u2014 only one road was available \u2014 though to the right\u200d due to the \u200dleft having a traffic jam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We started driving\u200c to the right, and after 300 meters,\u2062 my friend yelled\u2063 at me to stop the car,&#8221; Maya recounted. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize why. I started to ask him, and \u2063he jumped out of the car and ran to a shelter. And at this split second, I realized that\u2062 the car was under gunfire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, I\u2062 hid \u200cunder\u2064 the wheel,&#8221; Maya said. &#8220;My friend yelled \u2063at\u2063 me to reach out and get to him. I opened the car door,\u2064 and\u200c I just ran because I thought, if I&#8217;m going to die, I might as well be running.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shelters are common in \u2063Israel, where people huddle to shield themselves from\u200b rockets. But this one didn&#8217;t have doors and didn&#8217;t guarantee safety from on-foot terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Maya and Sagi stayed in the shelter for five minutes with around 40 festivalgoers, she said.\u2063 However, Sagi suddenly grew\u2062 claustrophobic or had\u200d some sort of bad &#8220;feeling,&#8221; \u2062and they left on \u2064foot. Sneakers came in handy.<\/p>\n<p>It was 7:00 a.m. Sagi grabbed her hand, and they ran to the car, made a U-turn,\u2064 and \u2064drove to the other side of the traffic\u2064 jam. Then they \u2063saw it. Coming\u200c from the direction they were heading were cars\u2063 filled with people screaming for help, bleeding, and warning others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I realized we had nowhere to\u200d go,&#8221; Maya told the Washington Examiner. &#8220;They were coming from both sides.\u2062 We \u200bopened the car doors and \u200cstarted running toward a field. We \u200ddidn&#8217;t know which way we should \u200crun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maya managed to grab her cell phone, \u200dleaving her keys and money behind.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s when we realized we were\u200d like ducks being shot at,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When we were running, \u200dyou saw people to the right and left sides falling down because they got shot, and you could hear them screaming and heard\u200d the bullets firing behind your head. But you just keep running because, if you go back, you&#8217;re probably going to \u200bdie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Later in the day, \u200bMaya would \u200bsee \u200dgruesome footage on her phone showing what happened at the shelter. Minutes after she left, terrorists threw grenades inside and shot \u200deveryone to make sure they were\u2064 dead.<\/p>\n<p>The only survivors were one or two people hiding underneath dead bodies, Maya said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Your son killed Jews!&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As \u2062Maya and Sagi ran away from the festival, they saw smoke rising from nearby kibbutz&#8217;s\u200b \u2014 agricultural communities set aflame, where men, women, children, and the elderly were killed in their homes. At Kibbutz Be&#8217;eri, Israeli officials would soon find the\u200c tortured and mutilated remains of a six-year-old and seven-year-old,\u2062 plus their mother and father, tied with their hands\u2062 behind their backs. Kibbutz Nir Oz saw a quarter of its 400 population kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>One Hamas terrorist called his parents\u200c from Kibbutz Mefalsim \u200bto\u2063 brag about how he slaughtered 10 Jews alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look how many I killed with my own hands!&#8221; he said. \u2063&#8221;Your son killed Jews!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After roughly two-and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-parents-raise-money-to-challenge-school-board-decision-not-to-reopen-schools-this-year\/\" title=\"Michigan Parents Raise Money To Challenge School Board Decision Not To Reopen Schools This Year\">-a-half hours<\/a> of running, Maya and Sagi\u200b arrived in Patish, a settlement in southern \u2063Israel. It was 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Maya was also checking her phone constantly,\u2063 trying to \u2063get in touch with friends, including her roommate, who sent an image of her hiding in the ticket booth \u200cat the festival alongside several others. The roommate also sent a picture in the booth holding hands with her brother-in-law, who was shot in the \u200dstomach, though still breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Another friend inside was shot in\u2063 the knees.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the ticket booth, terrorists were debating among each other which \u2062attendees, \u200cmany of whom were drunk or high \u200con\u200c psychedelics, they would outright murder\u2064 or rape. Hamas kidnapped Maya&#8217;s 21-year-old friend Mia Shem, who would later be recorded\u2062 in a Hamas hostage video,\u2064 and the brother of \u2062a childhood friend.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2063Patish, \u2064civilians provided food and water to perplexed and exhausted festivalgoers. Maya and Sagi retreated to a bomb shelter and were later in \u2062the day shuttled with others in a bus \u2064to the city \u200dof Be&#8217;er Sheva.<\/p>\n<p>Police cars trailed the bus,\u200d which arrived at 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A \u200dgirl who escaped the festival introduced Maya and Sagi to her father, who offered to drive them to Tel Aviv. As they rode, \u2063air ride sirens \u200cblared like surround sound.\u200d Hamas commander Mohammed \u2064Deif\u200b had urged &#8220;Muslims everywhere to launch an attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would soon declare war.<\/p>\n<p>Liron \u200dBarda is a\u2064 hero<\/p>\n<p>The horror of what was happening became more clear to Maya in Tel\u200c Aviv. &#8220;There was a counting in Israel on television of the dead,&#8221; Maya, who called her parents and went to their home outside the city, said. &#8220;It\u2062 started at 50. Then\u200c it went\u2063 to 100. And then it went to 150.\u2062 All the \u200ctime jumping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was \u200blooking at my feed on Facebook and Instagram, and just seeing a lot of \u200cmy friends who posted happy pictures at the festival, who were\u2064 celebrating\u200c life, missing, kidnapped, and I don&#8217;t know where they are,&#8221; \u2063she said. &#8220;Dead?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, that day, Maya was still\u200b in contact with her friends holed up in the festival&#8217;s ticket booth. Hamas tried to kick open the\u2062 booth twice, though it failed. A third time, in\u200b the late afternoon, a terrorist entered and looked down at the group of shivering Israelis.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;He saw they were terrified, and he just robbed them,&#8221; Maya said. &#8220;They survived by God&#8217;s miracle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They were rescued by law enforcement six hours after first entering the booth. One friend of Maya&#8217;s, however, wasn&#8217;t \u2062as \u200clucky.<\/p>\n<p>The friend stuck around the main area to give injections and apply tourniquets to the \u200dwounded. She was later found murdered. Her name was Liron Barda.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Liron is a hero,&#8221; her family members and friends wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maya-izoutcheevs-harrowing-escape-from-israeli-music-festival-attacked-by-hamas-terrorists\/\" title=\"Maya Izoutcheev's daring escape from Hamas attack at Israeli music festival.\">recent joint social media post<\/a>, \u200dadding she &#8220;died saving lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;She is the complete \u2064opposite of the people who\u2062 murdered her,&#8221; \u2062the post reads. &#8220;While they sanctify death, she sanctified life. We hope she is now lying in a suite\u2064 in\u200d heaven, where she is most served to be and rest in peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Heroic \u200cstories&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maya is still at her\u2064 parents&#8217; house. She&#8217;s staying there for the time being and not working. She has difficulty sleeping and eating.\u2064 She has panic attacks and \u200ccries\u2062 uncontrollably. \u2064And she is \u200bstill coming to terms with the fact that terrorists earlier this month kidnapped and murdered her friends.<\/p>\n<p>But while life isn&#8217;t easy after the deadly\u200b terror attack, and Israelis are\u2063 in\u2064 trauma, Maya has a message for Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to remember this trauma the way they want \u200cus to,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Because they want us to remember the fear and\u2064 the horrors and the terrible, terrible videos, and \u2064the rape, and the bodies, but we will remember the people laughing, and \u200bwe will always \u200cremember the energy, and remember the heroism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because there are\u200c a lot of heroic stories,&#8221; Maya said.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How did Maya and\u2064 Sagi\u200c find shelter in the forest during the attack?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  E other form of\u2064 anxiety attack and decided to leave the shelter, urging\u200c Maya to do the same. Reluctantly, \u200bMaya followed him \u200bas they made their way to a nearby forest, hoping to find cover.<\/p>\n<p>As they ran through the forest,\u2062 the\u2063 sounds of\u200d explosions and gunfire filled the air. Maya could feel her heart pounding in her chest, the fear and adrenaline coursing through her veins. She fought against the tears that threatened to escape, knowing that showing \u2062weakness\u200d in this situation could mean the end of her life.<\/p>\n<p>After what felt like an eternity, Maya and Sagi reached \u200da small cabin tucked away \u2064in the \u2063trees. The cabin provided some shelter, but they knew they couldn&#8217;t \u200cstay there for long. They\u200d needed to find a way to safety.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of a passerby, Maya and\u200b Sagi were able to make \u2062contact with the authorities, who instructed them to stay hidden until rescue teams could reach them. It was a long and agonizing wait, but eventually, they were \u2062safely evacuated and brought to a nearby hospital for medical evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Maya&#8217;s survival story \u2064is one of bravery, resilience, and the will to live. But it \u200bis also a testament\u2062 to the horrors that innocent people face in the wake of terrorist attacks. The \u200ctrauma and fear that linger long after the event itself can be haunting, affecting every aspect of\u2063 a survivor&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Since the attack, Maya has been working through her trauma with the help of therapists and support groups.\u2063 She is determined \u2064to\u2064 heal and \u2063overcome the nightmares that haunt her every \u200dnight. She knows that\u200b she is \u2064lucky to \u200dbe\u200b alive and wants to use her \u200cstory as a\u2062 reminder of the strength and \u2064resilience of the human\u200b spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorist attacks like the one Maya survived are a\u2062 harsh reality of our world today. Innocent lives are lost, families are \u2063torn apart, and communities are left in\u2064 shock and grief. It is\u200d important that we\u200b not only condemn \u2062these\u2063 acts\u200b of \u200dviolence but\u2064 also support the survivors in their \u200bjourney to recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Maya&#8217;s love for God, country, and her family remains \u200dunwavering. She refuses to let fear dictate her life and is determined \u2062to rebuild and move forward. Her survival story \u2063is a\u200d testament to the power of hope, resilience, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-children-who-survived-amazon-jungle-after-40-days-released-from-hospital\/\" title=\"Four kids who survived Amazon Jungle for 40 days now out of hospital.\">indomitable human spirit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Maya continues her healing process, she hopes \u200bto inspire others to\u200d never give\u2062 up, even in the face of\u2064 unimaginable \u2062horrors. She wants the world to\u2062 remember that love and unity \u200bare the ultimate weapons against hate and violence. And \u2062she wants\u2064 to honor the memory of those who lost \u200dtheir lives on that fateful day by living her life to the fullest and making every moment count.<\/p>\n<p>Maya&#8217;s survival \u2062story is a chilling reminder of the\u200d fragility of life, but \u200bit is also a \u200dstory of hope and strength. Let us stand with her and\u200d all survivors of terrorist attacks, offering our support and standing united against \u200bthose who seek to instill \u200cfear and division.\u200c Together,\u2063 we can create a world where \u200bsuch horrors are but distant memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>about Maya Izoutcheev is that she is deeply rooted in her heritage. With a strong love for God, country, and family, this 29-year-old from Be&#8217;er Sheva, Israel, carries the legacy of her grandparents who escaped the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2081958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}