An Israeli television personality tearfully recalled the final text messages she received from her younger sister moments before she was gunned down at point-blank range by Hamas terrorists who massacred more than 260 partygoers at a music festival near the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning.
“Don’t tell mom, but there has been an infiltration of dozens of terrorists,” Mapal Adam, 27, texted to her older sister, Ma’ayan Adam, 36, during the fateful moments that the Super Nova trance music festival was overrun by Hamas gunmen.
Ma’ayan Adam broke down in tears on Monday during a television interview — recalling the last messages she received from her sister, who was fatally shot while playing dead as she hid under a truck alongside her boyfriend.
“There are wounded here, blood everywhere,” Mapal Adam texted to her sister, according to the Israeli channel N12 News.
“I’m scared, Ma’ayan,” Mapal wrote in a text message while she was in hiding.
“I don’t know where to run to.”
Ma’ayan wrote back to Mapal: “Talk to me. Take a photo of where you are.”
Ma’ayan told N12 News that she called her sister but wasn’t able to reach her.
“She keeps texting me: ‘They’re killing everybody,'” Ma’ayan told N12 News.
Ma’ayan said she could not comprehend why it took the Israeli military so long to respond to the scene.
She told N12 News that at least 20 minutes had elapsed since Mapal first informed her of what was going on.
“I believed in the army,” Ma’ayan said. “Mapal served in the military six years, and I served for eight years.”
“I responded to her: ‘Who’s shooting? We’re shooting?’ Because I could not believe that 20 minutes had gone by since she first started texting me and this was the situation,” she said.
“That’s when she replied to me: ‘The terrorists [are shooting].'”
“Ma’ayan, where is the army?” Mapal texted her sister.
“Ma’ayan, we need forces here, there are hundreds of terrorists,” she texted.
Ma’ayan told N12 News that she began frantically calling anyone she knew in the military, including journalists who cover the army.
“I sent them her location and I told them that there was a massacre,” Ma’ayan recalled.
She said Mapal and her boyfriend had suffered shrapnel wounds after Hamas terrorists threw a grenade in their direction.
“That’s when they went underneath a truck and played dead,” Ma’ayan told N12 News. “The blood [from the shrapnel wounds] played in their favor.”
She said her boyfriend, Roey, lay on top of her to protect her.
“He told me that she was a hero and that she was calm throughout,” Ma’ayan said. “I’m not sure he’s telling me the truth. I’m sure she was terribly frightened.”
