Artist manager describes “nightmare” of Israeli festival rave attack

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an attack was launched by Hamas operatives over the weekend (Saturday, October 7). In a recollection of the night, he described the incident as like a “nightmare”.According to a report shared by Billboard, Gaster showed up at the festival site around 5:30am, and the party was set to run until 5pm that evening.

It was around an hour after he arrived that the night took a turn, however, when rockets and missiles launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip landed on the site.“Around 6:30 in the morning we started hearing explosions,” he said. “We went out of the backstage and we saw a full bombardment everywhere.

It was hundreds of rockets and mortars flying from everywhere and explosions all around us.”He also stated that security advised all attendees to get down to the floor and put their hands above their heads for protection, but after five or 10 minutes informed everyone to “get in your cars and go”.“The moment the policemen said ‘go now,’ I ran,” he added. “I didn’t wait, because we know it’s a rocket attack.

You need to act quick.”The Paralello Universo festival was first started nearly 20 years ago, and the Israel event was called Supernova Sukkot Gathering – named after the Jewish holiday and hosting a line-up of electronic artists.Fleeing the event, Gaster told the outlet that he and three others were able to make it to the car quickly because they were parked closeby, and began “driving super fast, not stopping for anything, even when missiles [were] coming down”. ““My instinct told me don’t stop for shelter, just drive… We drove so fast we didn’t even know what was happening,” he continued, adding that he tried to ensure artists he works with were also in vehicles to flee the site.When he and the others made it to a.