But the fact that the security forces happened to be sitting in a restaurant several feet away from where the deadly attack took place is being hailed by many in Israel as nothing short of a miracle from God.

“We just sat down at a restaurant and we heard gunshots,” the officer who killed the terrroists said in an interview with Channel 12 News. “Without thinking twice, we ran in the direction of the gunfire, and at some point, when we crossed the street, the shots were fired at a higher frequency.”

He then recalled that bystanders yelled “terrorists! terrorists!” He went on to explain that once he isolated the source, he closed in and at about 20 meters, shot and killed the perpetrators.

The officer was wounded in his arm and leg but “thank God” he is ok.

One of Israel’s most popular social media influencers, Hatzel (the shadow) challenged his audience to consider how miraculous the context of the event truly was. On Monday, he posted to Facebook: “What are the chances that in the exact location of the terror attack, the deputy commander of the Yamas (Israeli SWAT team) and his forces also happened to be where they were eating at that moment? Do you still not believe in divine intervention?”

“Thank you to the modern-day Maccabees, the (Yamas) undercover unit, who sacrifice their lives for our sake and yesterday engaged under fire and killed the two terrorists preventing a much bigger tragedy.”

In an interview with Ynet, the Yasam troop who killed the terrorist said that “destiny” sent him to the location of the attack before it happened.

The attack was meant to be a much larger mass casualty attack, according to police. Below is an image of the other weapons in possession of the terrorists.

In the attack, two border police officers were killed, three other officers were wounded before members of the same police force killed the terrorists.

An exchange of fire

The two terrorists, who come from the adjacent Arab city of Uhm El-Fahm, randomly shot at passerbyers in Hadera when the Israeli police forces confronted them. It was then that an exchange of fire took place, which killed Border Police officers Yazan Fallah, 19, from the village Kasra-Samia, and Shirel Aboukaret, 19, from Netanya along with the two terrorists.

Ironically, the brother of one of the terrorists serves in the Israeli police.

Following the attack, MK Itamar Ben-Gvir confronted Interior Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev, who oversees the Israeli police calling him a “failure” and a “shame.”

This month, this is the second terror attack carried out by an Israeli Arab. Last week, Israel365 News reported that an Israeli Arab murdered three women and one man in a terrorist attack in Beer Sheva.