Yonatan Nizri, a 25-year-old father and husband, is grateful he wasn’t more severely injured by a weekend attack carried out in the West Bank by Palestinian terrorists.
The Israeli native told Ynet gunfire launched by two Palestinian terrorists just narrowly missed him, his wife, and their infant son, according to The Times of Israel.
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“I felt a blow to my jaw, and I immediately grabbed my wife and child and we went inside,” said Nizri, who was hit by shrapnel from a bullet. “It is a tough feeling — to switch in a second from a festival atmosphere to one of an attack was hard to absorb.”
“[T]his was definitely a miracle,” he continued. “If the bullet [trajectory] had been a little offset, this could have ended completely differently.”
The young husband and father recalled sitting in his sukkah — a temporary hut erected during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot — when the shots first rang out in the West Bank settlement of Beit El on Friday night.
He said there were more than a dozen people gathered in the sukkah when bullets pierced the thin barrier.
Nizri said the attack left him feeling defenseless.
“After an incident like this … when you feel that your child and wife were in lethal danger, you ask questions,” he said.
The Israeli Defense Forces have since captured a surviving suspect. The IDF said one Palestinian assailant was fatally shot by Israeli troops in the area when the gunman attempted to flee. After hours of searching, the IDF detained a second assailant and later recovered the firearm used in the attack.
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