Watch the video: How an ex-police officer defended his family from Hamas terrorists.
“I heard shots and said to my son, listen, those are Arab shots. How do I know that? I was in the army, I know the sound. I said to him, go and get your gun, a gun like this. Our whole family went into the shelter. I closed all the doors, all the windows and I stood in the hallway.” “A little later I heard Arabs outside. I was a police officer, so I fired a shot into the door. And suddenly, like in a Hollywood movie, eight terrorists opened fire – all over the place.” “We couldn’t close the metal bars, there was a gap of about five centimeters. Someone stuck a Kalashnikov through there and started shooting at us. My son and I shot back – for three hours. Back and forth.” “In the shelter were my wife, my six-year-old daughter, my 14-year-old daughter, my other son, who had no military training. He was a teacher. He protected the others with his body, from shrapnel or the like.” “Then I heard them pouring gasoline outside and thought, OK, they’re going to start fires.” At some point I heard them shouting “Allahu akbar” – “God is great” – and I said to my son: This is a good sign, they are expecting death. Someone is shooting at her. They left us alone, and when we had a moment, we opened the window and let in some air. They hadn’t lit the petrol and we managed to close the shutters. 20 minutes later a small unit came and told us we could get out.” “The retribution for this should be biblical.” “I’m driving my wife’s father back there now: he doesn’t care if there’s a war. He wants to go back to his house. And I’m taking him with me.”
Source: Stern
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