Sunny Gabe was performing at Supernova Music Fest on October 7.
The body of a 25-year-old Israeli woman, who was taken hostage by Hamas after an attack on a music festival near the Gaza border, was found on Thursday. “Our sunshine is gone, our hearts are in pieces,” Yoknim Mayor Simon Alfasi told The Jerusalem Post. We are all crying and refusing to believe how long we waited for a different ending. “47 days of hope ended this morning with the bitter news of Sunny’s murder on October 7.”
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Sunny Gabe was performing at the Supernova Music Fest on October 7 when Hamas fired rockets into Israel and its gunmen stormed the venue where 3,000 people were partying. According to his family, Gabe called his mother at 6:40 a.m. to tell her about the rocket overhead and asked what to do. His mother advised him to get out of his car and find a place to hide. Gabe allegedly hid in a field shelter near Kibbutz Alumim. Two of his friends who survived the attack said the gunmen threw grenades at the shelter, so Gabe ran back to his car but was shot.
After that, she was taken to the police command post to seek medical attention and was not seen again. “She was told to run but we don’t know how fast she could run at that time,” her brother told Israeli media. When they didn’t hear from him, Gabe’s family went looking for him at hospitals and medical centers where people injured in the attack had been taken. Her father heads to the party venue to look for any clues as to her whereabouts. Over the next 5 days, he sifted through ditches and roadside corpses to find his daughter.
The report states that Gabe was a recent law graduate who will turn 26 next week. The music fest was one of the first targets of the Palestinian group, whose gunmen were reported to have entered the venue on motorbikes, trucks and sometimes gliders, which were seen flying over the festival in viral videos.
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