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Marking the one-year anniversary of the deadly October 7 terrorist attack at the Nova Music Festival in Israel, survivors like Maya and Itay Regev are recalling their experiences of capture, torture, and hope. The brother and sister, 21 and 18 at the time of the attack, had been told about the festival by Maya\u2019s friend, Omer Shem Tov. By 6:30 in the morning, however, Hamas terrorists had attacked the festival and would kill around 1,200 people that day. In a March interview<\/a>, Maya recalled the mayhem during the attack. \u201cIt was insane,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen the sirens started, we thought it would be over soon. Only when someone passed by shouting ‘Guys, run!’ did we panic and start running. We ran for about an hour and a half until we couldn’t anymore.\u201d Ori Danino, a friend of a friend, who had gotten away from the mayhem decided to turn around and get them. \u201cWe got into his car and drove off, and then they started shooting at us. I got hit by two bullets in the leg, and Itay was hit in the thigh. I closed my eyes for a moment from the pain and fear, and when I opened them, the driver’s seat was empty.\u201d Omer tried to grab the steering wheel, but the three friends were captured. Ori, too, had been abducted.<\/p>\n

At a recent event in New York, the Regev\u2019s recalled life as hostages. Along with Omer, they were taken to a home in Gaza. Omer and Itay were kept in the same place, but Maya was taken to a different floor, where she spent 8 days in excruciating pain. \u201cMy leg was really broken\u2026 broken is a pretty word. The bullet hit my bone and it crushed six centimeters of it. My foot wasn\u2019t connected at all to the rest of my leg,\u201d Maya told the audience<\/a>. Itay, who was also wounded, had bullets removed from his leg with tweezers and without anesthesia. Maya was eventually taken to a Hamas-run hospital for treatment on her leg, where she was operated on without an anesthetic and given ketamine. She remembers very little of the two weeks during her recovery.<\/p>\n

During her time at the hospital, Itay and Maya were able to trade notes back and forth by guards.\u00a0 Omer and Itay had been forced to dress as Muslim women and moved to another house. \u201cIt was a light, a small light in all the darkness, that I hear from my little brother and from Omer, that I understand they are ok,\u201d Maya told The Jerusalem Post<\/em><\/a> of the notes. Itay and Maya were released during a week-long ceasefire in November. Omer remains in captivity. Ori Danino, who had returned from safety to help the siblings and Omer, was found deceased in a tunnel in Rafah<\/a> this past September. Maya was in the hospital for 8 months after her release and had to receive physical therapy to learn how to walk again. Although they are home, their captivity is far from being behind them. \u201cEven though Maya and I are home, Omer is still there,\u201d Itay told The Jerusalem Post<\/em>. Please pray for the safe return of the nearly 100 hostages who remain in captivity.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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