Disabled girl, 17, who cannot walk or talk and is fed through a tube among music festival hostages snatched by Hamas
A DISABLED teenage girl who cannot walk or talk is among the hostages snatched by Hamas monsters during their music festival rampage.
Rut Perez, 17, had travelled to the Supernova festival near to the Gaza border in southern Israel to “communicate through music”.
The vulnerable teen has now emerged as one of the 150 hostages taken by the Palestinian militants when they stormed the festival on paragliders and opened fire.
It was the start of Hamas’s surprise three-pronged assault on Israel by air, sea and land on October 7.
Their grisly campaign of terror left 1,300 Israelis dead, including hundreds of children and babies killed in cold blood.
As Hamas retreated back into Gaza taking young hostages, Israel discovered 260 bodies of slaughtered partygoers among the desert plains.
The trance party – designed as a celebration of “peace and love” – turned into a massacre, etched forever in the minds of Israelis.
Rut, who suffers from muscular dystrophy. had been attending the festival with her father, Eric, and 20-year-old sister, Yamit.
Recalling the event, Yamit told The Times: “It was the happiest I’ve ever seen her, dancing in her wheelchair. She was so happy.”
She explained that she had decided to leave the festival early with her friends, while her father said: “Me and your sister will stay on and enjoy”.
Yamit still has no idea if her father and sister are alive.
“I am begging Hamas to let my dad take care of her, he’s the only one who knows what she needs,” she said.
In heartbreaking online posts, she has been appealing for information and sending gut-wrenching messages to her missing family members.
On Wednesday, she wrote: “My dear father if you see this wherever you are I just hope you’re not suffering.
“You promised me to come home with Ruth…I’m beginning to regret that I didn’t stay with you there and protected you like only I know how.”
Among those still missing from the festival massacre is German tattoo artist Shani Louk.
The 22-year-old was filmed dancing and singing moments before Hamas descended on the unsuspecting ravers.
She was later seen unconscious and naked in a pick-up truck being manhandled by the terrorists.
Her family believe she is currently in a hospital in Gaza in critical condition.
The Sun exclusively revealed a chilling rant sent from the phone of Shani Louk’s missing boyfriend, Orión Hernández Radoux, 30, amid fears he was abducted by Hamas terrorists.
Brit Dan Darlington and his German girlfriend, Carolin Bohl, have not been heard from since Hamas militants gunned down festivalgoers.
Darlington, 34, a photographer has since been reported as dead by his sister who said he was “murdered by terrorists”.
The photographer and his girlfriend were pictured laughing in a post on Instagram just three days before they disappeared during the brutal attack.
It comes as Israel has been pounding the Gaza Strip with airstrikes for days on end in revenge for Hamas’s unprecedented cross-border attack.
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now warned that the “next stage is coming” after his military claimed to have killed two top Hamas commanders.
At least 2,200 Palestinians have been killed during the retaliatory bombardment of densely-populated Gaza, including 600 children.
The UN has warned that Gaza is descending into a “hellhole” and is on the “brink of collapse”.
A convoy of over 70 evacuees was blown up by an Israeli air strike, which the IDF has said it is now looking into.
Last night, Israel’s military revealed they had conducted “localised raids” into the bomb-blitzed Gaza Strip to “cleanse the area of terrorists and weapons”.
Super-elite Sayeret Matkal soldiers led tanks and infantry into Hamas lairs yesterday to hunt down terrorist rocket crews and search for hostages.
The mission was the first to probe Hamas defences ahead of an anticipated full-scale ground invasion that could begin as soon as today.
An Israeli defence source told The Sun: “It is just the start.”
Over 360,000 reservists have been called up to bolster the 100,000-strong regular army, which is amassing on the border ahead of the expected land assault.
The PM said in a TV address last night that Israel will “never forget these horrific acts of our enemies.”
Netanyahu added: “We are striking at our enemies with unprecedented might – this is just the beginning. We will end this war stronger than ever.”
Over 120 civilians – including foreign nationals – are being held inside besieged Gaza by Hamas, the IDF has said.
Hamas claimed on Friday that 13 of them had been killed in Israel’s retaliatory air strikes.