A saving invocation.
That of Lionel Messi's name as a verbal talisman to dribble the certain threat from a terrorist organization that on October 7 in Israel tortured, killed and kidnapped hundreds of civilians.
The protagonist of the story is
Ester Cunio, a 90-year-old Argentine woman
who that day was at her home in the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the many attacked by Hamas in its violent incursion into Israeli soil.
When two members of the Palestinian organization entered her house armed, asking about the remaining members of her family, Ester encountered the language barrier and certain danger to her life.
"Don't talk to me, because I don't know your language. Arabic. And I speak Hebrew badly. I speak in Argentinian, in Spanish," he told them.
"'And what is Argentina?', he answers me. Then I tell him: do you watch football? Then he tells me 'yes, football. I like it,'" the dialogue continued.
"Then I tell him:
I'm from where Messi is from
. And he answers 'Messi? I like Messi'. And he grabbed my arm, gave me the revolver, the shotgun, he put his hand on me and they took a photo of us. "said the woman.
And without asking any more questions, the terrorists left.
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