Posted on 04/04/2004 6:53:50 PM PDT by yonif
Esther Zaga marvels at the miracle that saved her and her six children from death at the hand of a terrorist, even as she mourns for her husband Ya'acov (Kobi), 40, buried Sunday afternoon, after he was killed in the shooting attack on their home Friday night in Avnei Hefetz in Samaria.
"God gave him to me, God took him from me," said Zaga, an Argentinean immigrant. "I had the privilege of being his wife," she said, hugging her children, as she spoke to reporters before heading to the funeral in Petah Tikva.
"Thank God, there were many miracles. He [the terrorist] tried to get into the house, and he didn't succeed," she added.
Their daughter Hanni, 14, who was wounded by the terrorist while trying to shield her three-year-old sister, spoke to reporters from her bed in Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba on Sunday after recovering from surgery.
In her hand she held a plastic cup with the bullet that had lodged in her body.
She recalled how on Friday night she was up until close to 1 a.m. talking with another sister in their bedroom. They heard a noise that sounded like someone knocking on the shutters.
"We realized that there was someone outside," she told Channel 1.
"We were afraid it was a terrorist," she said whispering as she lay with her head on the pillow and a tube running from her nose.
She recalled how only last Thursday the father of a friend rushed to the library where she and a group of students were studying after hearing there was a terrorist alert for their small community.
So she had reason to believe that the person outside the window so late at night could be a terrorist.
"We went and told our father," said Hanni. He went out with a gun but without his bullet-proof vest, she said.
Her mother yelled at them to get to a shelter within the house, while she went to to the room of the small children and called for help on her cellphone, said Hanni.
"I ran to get my little sister, who was in my parents' room, to bring her to the shelter. She was crying, and I held her hand and started to run," she recalled.
"I heard someone trying to get into the house. There were shots. I was hit. I found myself on the floor for a second," she said. "I saw blood and pieces of flesh," said Hanni.
Somehow she was able to crawl to the shelter with her sister, who was unharmed. They were joined by the other siblings and her mother.
They were there for about 20 minutes, waiting until it was safe to come out.
As the minutes dragged on, and her father didn't return, Hanni said, she feared he was hit. "He didn't return the whole time we were there waiting. "Slowly, I realized," she said.
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Much of the world is back in the context of the 1930s.
Your words express by wishes as well.
Unfortunately yes it is.
Yonif, the appearence of rabid anti-Christian groups in the West also mimics stalin's USSR. The only thing missing is the gulags.
While hitler planned and did his wicked deeds against Jews... stalin was doing similar things to Russian and Ukrainian Christians during the 30's.
This repeat of history in a twisted, weird way is very evil.
Prayers for all in danger offered.
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