Israeli Family Searches For Father After He Rushed To Save Daughter From Music Festival
¡°He¡¯s just the best person in the world. He didn¡¯t even think twice before he left the house yesterday morning,¡± Cohen said. ¡°His whole heart is his family.¡±
An Israeli family has been searching for their father after he rushed to the trance music festival near the Gaza Strip while Hamas terrorists attacked it on Saturday.
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What happened?
Mark Peretz rushed in an attempt to rescue his daughter Maya, who was attending the Tribe of Nova music festival, from an attack by Hamas terrorists near the Gaza-Israel border. The family of Mark Peretz told The Post Sunday that they have not seen the 51-year-old dad since that moment.
¡°[He] dropped everything and drove there,¡± Peretz¡¯s daughter-in-law, Jessica Cohen, 24, told The Post.
Where and when?
He sped away from their home in Rishon LeZion on Saturday morning to the Tribe of Nova music festival near the Gaza Strip.
Mark Peretz
How did the events turn out to be?
However, fortunately and tragically, all the same time, as Peretz sped south, Maya was dodging through fields and sharp bushes to escape the Hamas militants.
Maya and a group of about 12 people managed to pile into a car fleeing north, but were forced to abandon the vehicle as terrorists shot after them ¡°non-stop.¡± They then hid in a police station for three terrifying hours, Cohen said.
At one point, Peretz was within 20 minutes of the police station where Maya was sheltering and called his family back in Rishon LeZion to check in before he was suddenly cut off.
¡°We were on the phone with him and we heard gunshots, and don¡¯t know exactly sure what happened,¡± Cohen said.
Mark Peretz
Peretz had been sharing his location on his cell phone, and his son¡¯s ex-military friends rushed to the area where he¡¯d been to try to find him. ¡°We sent his friends to the area. They said they saw the car, but they don¡¯t see anybody in it,¡± Cohen said.
Maya managed to find a safe ride home with one of her friend¡¯s fathers, but nobody has seen or heard from Peretz since he vanished from the roadside.
¡°He¡¯s just the best person in the world. He didn¡¯t even think twice before he left the house yesterday morning,¡± Cohen said. ¡°His whole heart is his family.¡±
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