The boyfriend of a woman kidnapped by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival said he is clinging onto hope that she is alive and praying for her safe rescue.
“She used to go to lots of these kind of peace parties and music festivals. Every time she would go with her best friends,” Noam Alon said of his girlfriend, Inbar Haiman, 27. “This time she did not return,” he told CNN.
Alon said Haiman had been hiding under the stage but decided to run, along with two other men, when it was no longer safe.
“At some point, one of the terrorists managed to take her,” Alon said. “Two other terrorists riding on a motorbike, came and took her away. The two other guys managed to survive, but they saw her taken away.”
Last week, Hamas terrorists launched a relentless attack on an Israeli music festival, opening fire on thousands of concert goers and killing at least 260 people as part of a coordinated massacre across multiple locations that has scarred and shocked Israel.
Hamas took up to 150 people hostage, including about 17 Americans.
People close to Alon watched a Hamas video showing his girlfriend was injured, according to Alon, who couldn’t bring himself to watch it.
Alon said he is worried when he hears about Israel bombing sites in Gaza, but believes his girlfriend could be kept in an underground tunnel somewhere in the densely populated enclave.
“They built tunnels, underground tunnels, so I guess they are keeping everybody there. But we do not know of course where she is, where the other hostages are,” he said.
“I want people to know that she is the best girlfriend, an amazing person,” Alon said through tears. “Everybody loved her. She is talented, she is brilliant, she is clever, she is funny. We just want her back. Her and all the other hostages.”