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Man, who rescued wounded from Nova festival, shoots dead one of the terrorists in Jaffa attack

2 October 2024, 5:25 pm 14 Edit
Lev Kreitman speaks to Kan on October 1, 2024. (Screen capture/X)
Lev Kreitman speaks to Kan on October 1, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

Lev Kreitman, who helped rescue wounded revelers at the Nova music festival on October 7, shot one of the terrorists during last night’s deadly terror attack in Jaffa.

Kreitman tells the Ynet news site that he had returned home shortly before the attack to grab his rifle and was at a local schnitzel shop in Jaffa when he heard gunshots.

He pulled out his weapon and went outside, understanding right away that a terror attack was unfolding, he tells Ynet.

Kreitman saw a man wearing an Israel Police hat who also had his rifle out and the two began looking for the attackers.

Upon hearing another round of gunshots, he spotted the assailants at the Jaffa light rail station, next to the bodies of several of their victims.

At this point, he sent a voice note to a group chat of his army friends updating them on what was unfolding and that he was about to engage.

The terrorists split up, and one of them headed in the direction of Kreitman, and the police officer in civilian clothes. Kreitman managed to surprise the terrorist from the side, firing at him and striking him. The assailant briefly fled before falling to the ground.

Kreitman briefly took shelter in a nearby building, fearing that the second terrorist would re-appear. After some time passed, he went back out to the scene of the attack to check in on the wounded. One of them still had a pulse and later received treatment from a medic but Kreitman says he doesn’t know whether he survived and thought about him all night.

The second terrorist ended up being shot and seriously wounded by police officers. Seven people were killed in the attack.

Kreitman is the head of Midburn, the local Israeli version of the Burning Man festival. He was in the Re’im forest on October 7 at a smaller party adjacent to the Nova music festival where Hamas terrorists perpetrated the largest massacre of the onslaught, killing 364 people.

Kreitman says all 120 people at his satellite party survived the attack and that he and others there helped rescue seriously wounded people from the Nova festival.

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