Published: 13 October 2023
Last updated: 5 March 2024
AMIT MUSAEI thought he was about to die but managed to escape from the Supernova music festival massacre. He recounts his harrowing ordeal to MICHAEL VISONTAY.
“We arrived at 1.30am on Saturday – four friends in their forties who drove down from Tel Aviv.
We set up our camp and organised some chairs. We had other friends who were supposed to arrive at sunrise, around 6.30am. In the meantime, I was taking a video of the amazing night sky.
As I was looking at the skies, I saw rockets flying. The security people told us to lie on the ground and cover our heads.
Some people panicked, others were the opposite, very relaxed. Remember, it was a psychedelic trance party. Many people took drugs and were not in their regular mindset. Unfortunately, that most likely contributed to their decision-making while they were being attacked.
We realised we were in an open space. We got up and asked the security guards; all of them told us to leave. All four of us made it back to the tent. We started to hear the booming sounds but I didn’t know where they were coming from.
People told us to go over by the wall and bend down. The first thing we heard was the sound of bullets hitting the wall.
We made it to the car. It wouldn’t turn on and my friends were taking videos of the rockets being intercepted above our heads. I was feeling very stressed. I could tell it was a heavy rocket attack and all I could think of was that I needed to be with my family, with my wife and daughters.
The festival was really just beginning. It was 6.50am, only 20 minutes after the attack started and I was already on my way out. We drove to the road that led into the festival space.
