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For four days, Hannie Ricardo held out hope that her daughter Oriya was in hiding after Hamas terrorists descended upon a music festival in the Israel desert on Saturday morning, killing hundreds.

“That’s what kept me going,” Ms Ricardo said in a telephone interview.

“I sat with her boyfriend’s mother and we planned their wedding,” she said, describing how she passed the endless days since she learned her daughter was missing.

On Tuesday, Ms Ricardo says Oriya’s boyfriend drove to the site of the festival to search the area of her last mobile phone ping.

He found her body there. She had attempted to escape with a friend but her friend was shot as they drove away. The last communication with her boyfriend was about her friend as he died in her arms. After that, she tried to flee on foot and was killed.

“They got her,” Ms Ricardo said. 

“They are monsters full of hate, ignorance and they are there for the killing.”

Hope has given way to frustration and anger as families wait for the more than 260 massacred at the Supernova festival to be identified and for their remains to be returned for burial.

The family of Shira Eylon, 23, also learned yesterday that she had been identified among the dead. Her body was found in the woods surrounding the festival.

Video reviewed by NBC News shows dozens of festival attendees seeking protection in shrubs and trees. Survivors have described being hunted by Hamas, staying silent and trying to camouflage themselves in hopes of remaining undetected.

Ms Eylon last called her father around 7am saying she was terrified as bombs began to fall. She was too scared to drive, and decided to wait for 30 minutes hoping the situation would calm down. 

Just before her phone was disconnected, Ms Eylon texted her dad saying she could hear gunfire. 

“That was it. We lost connection with her,” her sister Adar Eylon said. “We couldn’t find her. The country was in complete chaos – no one would give us information.”

Ms Eylon’s friends survived but lost track of her, and they later described the scene to her family.

“They told me it felt like the Holocaust – Jews running away from Nazis,” her sister said through tears yesterday.