Noa Beer told NBC News that she encountered a horrific scene as she fled the festival: “I saw two terrorists waiting for me to drive so I just stepped on the gas.”

Noa Beer had been anticipating the SuperNova X music and arts festival for months, helping organize the party in the Israeli desert. But when the day finally came, what was supposed to be a celebration of peace turned into a bloodbath. She barely escaped alive.

In the midst of Hamas’ brutal terror attack Saturday that killed 260 festivalgoers, Beer fled by car. At one point, she was surrounded by gunmen opening fire.

“They looked in my eyes and they saw terror,” she told NBC News by phone.

Her harrowing account comes two days after what she had helped plan as a joyful two-day trance party drew people from across the globe. Scores of videos posted to social media captured scenes of panic and chaos as festivalgoers fled, with some eyewitnesses saying they hid for hours from gunmen. Others described a traffic jam of cars trying to escape. Drone video later showed cars littering a nearby road, some of them burned out.