{"id":73848,"date":"2025-10-11T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/73848\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:44:07","slug":"october-7-survivor-dies-two-years-after-girlfriend-shot-dead-by-hamas-at-nova-festival-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/73848\/","title":{"rendered":"October 7 survivor dies two years after girlfriend shot dead by Hamas at Nova Festival | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A survivor of the October 7 attacks has died, two years after his girlfriend was shot dead by Hamas gunmen at Nova Festival.<\/p>\n

Roei Shalev, 29, has been found dead shortly after the second anniversary of the death of his 27-year-old girlfriend Mapal Adam, who was killed by Hamas gunmen when they attacked Nova Festival.<\/p>\n

The couple had been dancing with their friend Hilly Solomon, 26, on 7 October 2023 when the sound of rocket fire drowned out the music, causing them to flee the festival grounds in their car.<\/p>\n

As Hamas fighters closed in from all directions, the trio hid under a car, but they were spotted by gunmen and shot several times.<\/p>\n

\"Roei<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Roei Shalev and Mapal Adam. Pic: Instagram\/@roeishalev<\/p>\n

Mr Shalev said he waited seven “agonising” hours with two bullets in his back – with his girlfriend and his friend lying dead beside him – until the Israeli army came.<\/p>\n

A week later, his mother took her own life.<\/p>\n

“In just one week, I lost three of the most important women to me in the world,” Mr Shalev wrote on a fundraising page for festival survivors and their families.<\/p>\n

“That day was the darkest I’ve ever known. In the months that followed, I struggled to cope. Flashbacks and anxiety consumed me, and sleep became a distant memory,” he added.<\/p>\n

Now, two years after the horrifying attack, Mr Shalev was found dead in a burning car near Poleg Beach in Netanya, Israel.<\/p>\n

Police have opened an investigation, Israeli media reports.<\/p>\n

Shortly before his body was found, Mr Shalev had posted a note on his Instagram account, saying he “can’t go on anymore”.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never felt such deep and burning pain and suffering in my life. It’s eating me up inside,” Mr Shavel wrote.<\/p>\n

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Anyone feeling emotionally distressed or suicidal can call Samaritans for help on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org<\/a> in the UK.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, you can call Mind’s support line on 0300 102 1234, or NHS on 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A survivor of the October 7 attacks has died, two years after his girlfriend was shot dead by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-73848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}