Chicken coop owner survives anti-tank gunfire to dub: 'They were really targeting us, they wanted to kill us'"

June Green
December 3, 2023   
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Ayal Margolin/Flash90

Israel Sabagi, a chicken coop owner who lives in Moshav Dovb in the north, spoke this morning (Sunday) on the "Kalman-Lieberman" program on Channel 2 about the direct hit by Hezbollah anti-tank missiles in the moshav.

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""Unfortunately, we received three or four anti-tank missiles within half an hour or fifteen minutes of each other," he said. "They hit inside my chicken coop. I was supposed to take a cart of eggs, market them, and I missed by five minutes - my life was saved. I documented it, me and another friend who came to help me, we were together, we went into trauma, we went into the chicken coop, and after fifteen minutes, another anti-tank missile fired - they really aimed at us, they wanted to kill us explicitly.".

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Sabag

Sabagi described the financial hardship he has experienced since the evacuation of the northern settlements: "All I want is to earn 7,000 shekels and tears are flowing, it's not minimum wage. Of that, 4,000 shekels is just to pay for gasoline and travel from here to Tiberias to where we were evacuated. All I have left is 3,000 shekels and the state doesn't want to let us live.".

Sabagi said that sometimes he stays overnight in Dubav, because he doesn't have money for gas, even though the place is defined as a closed military area: "Let them close the coops for us in an orderly manner, we have an order from the general that it is a closed military area, but who will give me the money for the compensation? I have to pay the money. I invested more than 2.5 shekels there. We have no answer. The state hasn't given us a penny to this day.".

 


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