(Ynet News) Yael Ciechanover - Mai Hayat worked at the bar at the music festival near Kibbutz Re'im along with her friend Liron. When the shooting started, "We hid in the police station....I hugged the one who cried and couldn't breathe, and Liron helped the wounded while we were under fire. The shootings started to get closer, the policemen stood ready with weapons by the door...and said: 'charge.' They turned to us and said, 'Pray and run.' They went outside - and fell one after the other....For a moment there was quiet, we ran away to the field, I looked back and saw Liron, but she didn't join us." After Mai was captured, "the guy who was with me begged for his life and cried....They murdered him right before my eyes. I was left alone with the terrorists; one of them hit me on the head with a board every few seconds just to humiliate me, one of them held a knife and every few seconds approached me with it." After escaping, "I ran like crazy. I went under a platform and laid down next to three corpses; I took some of the blood that was dripping from the corpse next to me and applied it to my face, playing dead for three hours that felt like an eternity, three hours in which terrorists were shooting everywhere, burning everything around, and missiles that were shot above me; three hours that I am among corpses trying to protect myself. Three hours in which I thought I was the only one left alive. Suddenly I heard Hebrew, I screamed: 'Help!' They were Israeli soldiers."
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