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Music festival survivor recounts harrowing escape from Hamas terrorists: 'They hunted us for hours'

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Daniel Levi recounts how she hid in a tree for more than six hours amid the deadly Hamas attack on a music festival where more than 200 people were killed. A woman who fled for her life as Hamas terrorists gunned down festival goers in southern Israel is sharing the terrifying details of her survival. Daniel Levi, who was working at the Supernova music festival when the attack unfolded, recalled dozens of terrorists “filled the sky” around 6:30 a.m. Saturday near the Gaza border, descending as the crowd celebrated the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. “They just started shooting, and the sky was full of rockets,” she said in an interview on ABC News Live. The 31-year-old said she knew she “needed to stay in an open field” in order to survive the attack. (MORE: Death came from sea, air and ground: A timeline of surprise attack by Hamas on Israel) For the next half hour, Levi and her two friends, Nicole and Elaine, stayed put. When they heard gunfire in the distance, Levi told her friends they ...

A music festival survivor fleeing the attack, a pair of Hamas militants and a deadly decision

When Hamas militants swarmed into Israel over the weekend, one of their first targets was the Tribe of Nova music festival KIBBUTZ RE’IM, Israel -- The two militants were just ahead of him, spraying gunfire from their motorcycle at passing cars. One militant was driving, the 50-year-old man said, and the other sat behind, shooting at any target he saw. At least one wore body armor. “He didn’t see me,” Michael Silberberg said. So Silberberg made a decision. He and two friends had already managed to escape the slaughter at the Tribe of Nova music festival, where hundreds of militants from the Palestinian group Hamas had swarmed through crowds, killing at least 260 people and taking an unknown number hostage. They survived another attack a few minutes later, with two hiding in a roadside air-raid shelter while the other hid outside. Soon after that they were driving away in Silberberg’s car, trying to get far from the massacre, when they saw the motorcycle. “I knew it’s either I hit him o...