\u2019n Paartjie van Strand is dankbaar om weer terug op plaaslike bodem te wees nadat \u2019n Christelike toer waarop hulle was in Israel deur aanvalle deur die Palestynse groep Hamas ontspoor is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met \u2019n helderkleurige serp en \u2019n netjiese toeknoophemp sit Sakkie en Anita van der Merwe en praat oor die toer waarop hulle was en hoe \u2019n missiel baie naby aan hulle ontplof het terwyl hulle op \u2019n lughawe in Israel was. Maar deur dit als het hul toerleier hulle rustig gehou en volgens die twee was die Here se hand die hele tyd oor hulle, en dis asof hulle in \u2019n \u201cvakuum\u201d was terwyl alles om hulle gebeur het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Danie, Anita (72) en Sakkie (68) se seun, het Saterdag (7 Oktober) die angswekkende nuus dat sy ouers in hul hotelkamer in Jerusalem vasgekeer is, met DistriksPos & Helderberg Gazette<\/span> gedeel. D\u00edt nadat die Palestynse groep Hamas met \u2019n aanval toegeslaan en Israel onkant betrap het. Israel het kort hierna oorlog teen Hamas verklaar en met hul eie teenaanvalle begin. \u201cOor die foon kon ek die missiele hoor afgaan en die sirenes in die agtergrond hoor,\u201d het Danie ges\u00ea. Die twee was deel van \u2019n Bybel-toergroep wat besienswaardighede soos die Rooisee en Klaagmuur besoek het (\u201cPaartjie veilig tuis n\u00e1 aanvalle,\u201d DistriksPos & Helderberg Gazette<\/span>, 11 Oktober). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anita beskryf die toer wat op Sondag (1 Oktober) in Tel Aviv begin het as \u201cfantasties\u201d en dat hulle met \u2019n \u201ckop vol dinge\u201d teruggekom het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie Saterdagoggend (7 Oktober) om 09:30 se kant was ons by die graf van Lasarus. Toe ons wou ingaan toe hoor ons skote en toe vertel die gids vir ons daar is \u2019n troue en dit was net vuurwerke. Maar ek het \u2019n gefluit gehoor wat ek altyd in die weermag se tyd gehoor het en dit was toe nie net klappers gewees nie. Ek ken \u2019n missiel as ek hom hoor fluit. Ons gaan toe in die graf in en toe ons uitkom buitentoe, toe het die toerleiers onder mekaar begin praat en toe moes ons teruggaan hotel toe,\u201d s\u00ea Sakkie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Die twee het toe van hul hotel se balkon af die wit wolke van die missiele gesien, maar hulle is ingelig daar waar hulle is, is dit veilig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns sou Bethlehem toe gaan daardie oggend, maar toe stop als net daar,\u201d voeg hy by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Die einste Saterdag was die einde van die Loofhuttefees en die twee het tot en met Maandag (9 Oktober) toe hulle Israel per vliegtuig verlaat het in hul hotelkamer spandeer; hulle was wel uit vir \u2019n toer na \u2019n naby-gele\u00eb besienswaardigheid, maar meeste van die winkels en plekke was teen daai tyd al toe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns is toe lughawe toe, want ons vlug was Maandag middernag. Met ons aankoms by die lughawe het die motors kilometers lank tou gestaan. Daar was net mense en mense en mense in die lughawe. Bitter baie mense. Ons kon eers drie ure voor ons tyd deurbeweeg na die boarding-<\/span>kant van die lughawe. Ons was toe by die lughawe se eetplekke en op daardie tydstip het \u2019n missiel naby aan die lughawe getref, want ons kon die trillings voel. Dit het soos \u2019n aardbewing gevoel. Die mense het opgespring en gehardloop, maar \u2019n mens het nie geweet waarheen om te hardloop nie,\u201d s\u00ea hy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In hul agterkoppe was hulle bang dat die vliegtuig neergeskiet en hulle deur Hamas gevange geneem sou word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns het voor die boarding<\/span>-bord gesit en ewe skielik sou die Johannesburg naam van die bord af verdwyn en dan sou dit weer terugkom. Ons is toe later na \u2019n ander boarding<\/span>-lokaal verskuif. Ons sit toe en dis later 23:30 en ons moes al aan boord gewees het, maar ons was nog nie. Ons moes net sit en wag totdat ons aan boord kon gaan,\u201d s\u00ea Anita. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hulle beskryf die leier van die groep asook een van die toerleiers in Jerusalem as die rustigste mense wat elkeen op hul onderskeie wyse die groep rustig gehou het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOmtrent \u2019n uur nadat die vliegtuig opgestyg het kon ons weer rustiger begin raak,\u201d brei Sakkie uit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anita beskryf die \u201cvakuum\u201d waarin hulle was as die gebede van mense wat hulle beskerm het en die gevoel van dankbaarheid het oor albei geheers toe hul vliegtuig veilig in Johannesburg geland het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Die twee bieg dat hulle nou die Bybel heel anders lees n\u00e1 die toer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit was wonderlik om die See van Galilea te sien en te sien waar Jesus geloop het. Sulke plekke het ons gesien en besigtig en as ons nou lees van Jerusalem in die Bybel dan kan \u2019n mens dit in jou geestesoog sien,\u201d s\u00ea Sakkie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2019n Paartjie van Strand is dankbaar om weer terug op plaaslike bodem te wees nadat \u2019n Christelike toer waarop hulle was in Israel deur aanvalle deur die Palestynse groep Hamas ontspoor 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