“Because of the state of the body, they wouldn’t let us. “I don’t know how many gunshots because they wouldn’t tell us and we couldn’t see her before we buried her,” Puder said.

The family’s worst fears came true on 11 October when officials informed them that Maya had been shot dead. “We were going on a rollercoaster between having the hope of her being somewhere or kidnapped and the devastating thought of her being killed.”

We were in turmoil wanting her to be hiding somewhere, wanting her to be kidnapped, afraid of her being kidnapped. He said Maya, a second-year film student at Tel Aviv University, escaped at the same time as him but he did not see what happened to her.Īyala Puder, a 54-year-old British-Israeli interior designer, said: “The first four days that we were here sitting and waiting, it was like the time was not passing but yet it was going so fast. Lior told Maya’s family that Hamas gunmen threw grenades inside the shelter where they were hiding to lure them out. Maya went to the festival at the Re’im kibbutz, three miles from the Gaza border, with her friends, Rotem, 25, who was found dead inside the shelter, and Lior, 25, who survived after hiding under a dead body for six hours. Written by: INA WROLDSEN, STEVE MAC, WAYNE HECTOR Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.Maya Puder was a second-year film student at Tel Aviv University. She told me I should look up on the world with my head held high

We are who we are, who we are, and I'm just doing me, just doing me Throw away the books and the magazines, I'm never gonna look like a beauty queen We are who we are, who we are, pretty's just a petty wordĪnd I'm gonna shine like a star, cause I'm the only me in this world My face, my eyes, someone turn me up, I'm speaking my mindĪnd I, and I, I've been wasting a lot of time looking in mirrorsĪnd hating on me, but now I like what I see

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