The murderers came at a moment of their greatest joy!
Erick Peretz (58) and his daughter Ruth (16) also died at the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, where Hamas terrorists murdered at least 270 people. The bodies of the two Israelis have now been found – twelve days after the bloodbath.
As the New York Post reports, the teenager was in a wheelchair due to early childhood brain damage (cerebral palsy) and muscle loss. Daughter Yaarit Peretz (26), who wasn’t at the Nova music festival, said: “For years my father went to these parties and took Ruth with him because it was really good for her and she loved it.” Sometimes her sister didn’t have it at all want to come back more because she liked it so much.
“I told him there were terrorists on the streets”
On the morning of the terrorist attack (October 7th), Yaarit was still on the phone with her father. “He said they had little reception and that almost everyone had run away. And then I told him that there were terrorists on the streets,” said the 26-year-old. Then contact broke off.
The family didn’t know for days what had happened to their relatives. Yaarit Peretz heard reports that surviving eyewitnesses saw her father carrying the disabled girl away.
State of Israel mourns on Twitter
At that time, Yaarit was worried about her sister because she had to be fed through a gastric tube and also receive medical care. Faced with a possible abduction by Hamas, the 26-year-old thought: “I hardly think she will survive in Gaza.”
Now the family has the sad certainty that Erick and Ruth are dead. The State of Israel mourned the two victims on its official X/Twitter account. The post, read by more than 500,000 people, reads: “You were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists. May they remain in our fondest memories.”