Nova festival survivor seen in haunting image recounts moment Hamas killed her friends

The subject of the haunting photograph of a young woman in a red jacket fleeing the attack at the Nova festival on Oct. 7 has come forth to share the story of how she survived while Hamas slaughtered her friends.

Vlada Patapov, a 25-year-old mother, told the Daily Mail that she went to the desert rave on whim to accompany her friends, with their sleep interrupted when sirens flared at 6:30 a.m.

“I immediately heard shooting. It was loud and very close to us,” she said. “For a few seconds I didn’t know what was happening and then Matan just screamed that we had to run for the car.”

While she and two of her friends were able to flee to safety, several other friends became some of the more than 360 people killed by Hamas terrorist at the festival.

This is a developing story.