🔽I thought I was safe and well protected, and that I could not be touched.

I went and sat on a chair with a table in front of me, smoking my cigarette with my friend and scanning the area opposite me with a sniper. Suddenly,

A bullet from a Palestinian sniper hit me, pushed me back three meters and hit the wall of the building I was holed up in, shattering my shoulder and hitting my head and back. I screamed in pain and wished for death until I lost consciousness.

I woke up days later paralyzed from the neck down. Am I dismembered? I cannot move my body, connected to a catheter, tubes to drain fluids from the body and remove blood, connected to a respirator and full of stitches in my abdomen and chest.

There was a large hole next to my heart, the bullet shattered my rib cage and destroyed my spleen and lungs, and it was very close to the heart. I knew that my heart had stopped and I was revived. A combat medic who was with us is the one who saved my life.

An Israeli sniper was shot by a Palestinian sniper in the Gaza Strip

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