The Lagos pilgrims, who returned to Nigeria from Israel on Tuesday, have shared their experience of how they narrowly escaped deadly attacks from the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
He said, “My experience was so glorious and fantastic. It gives me a deeper understanding of the word of God. It made me appreciate the word of Jesus that gave us salvation. “That gave us the grace to visit everywhere we wanted to visit before returning. It was after everything we did, that was when the attack escalated. That was why Batch B was cancelled.
Bada said, “We heard, I didn’t see, we heard that a particular hotel that we just departed from was attacked about two hours after we left there.“We visited several places; we were in Bethlehem, we were in Jordan, we were in Nazareth, so, what we learnt was that the last place we left, just barely two or three hours after we left, was attacked.
Bada further noted that the pilgrims observed that there was tension among the Israelis and there were “blood donation centres that were already established.” “We went to Israel during the Feast of Tabernacles, and this got me scared. I told my partner that I was scared and that anything could happen, and we were already in Israel at the time,” Bantale said.