Mati Dancyg, a father of three young girls, recounted the miracles of how his family survived Hamas' brutal Oct 7. terrorist attack in Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel.
A father of three girls said it's a miracle most of his family survived Hamas’ massacre on Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel. 'Every time I looked inside at my daughters, I couldn’t believe that somebody was going to kill them,' Mati Dancyg told Fox News. 'I thought that eventually they will come to our house.' Almost half of Kibbutz Nir Oz’s 400 residents were murdered or taken captive during Hamas’s brutal Oct. 7 attack, reported The New York Times.
Dancyg said he didn’t believe the messages at first and when the alarms stopped, he left the shelter to get food for his family. 'Then I heard shouting in Arabic and the noises of shooting,' he said. 'I went back to the shelter and closed the door, and since then, I was holding the handle of the door.' Dancyg said most shelters in his community don't have locks on the doors since they're intended as protection from rockets, not invaders.
Dancyg said he tried to keep his family as calm as possible by giving his young daughters — ages 2, 7 and 8 — toys and filtering the news reports he shared with his wife. 'I’m glad they didn’t get very, very traumatized,' he said. 'I didn’t tell my wife exactly what was going on because I wanted her to stay calm with the daughters.' After about 10 hours, Dancyg said he was able to leave his home.
They killed — slaughtered — children and babies,' Dancyg said. Dancyg also recounted how his 71-year-old mother protected her two teenage granddaughters in Nir Oz while sheltering in their safe room. It, too, didn't have a lock on the door. 'They were under the bed in the shelter and the terrorist got inside the house,' Dancyg said. 'Then they were trying to open the shelter, and I don't know how she did it. … She was able to hold the handle.
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