Family enters Wadi Joz, where Arabs block their path and rain rocks and bricks on the car before they escape 'by a miracle.'

A family accidentally drove into the Arab neighborhood of Wadi Joz in Jerusalem on Thursday night, and nearly paid for the wrong turn in Israel's capital city with their lives.

After entering the neighborhood, the family car was beset upon by a hail of potentially lethal rocks and massive bricks that broke the windshield, in what the mother of the family Etti Cohen described to Yedioth Aharonoth as "nearly a lynch-mob." Fortunately the family managed to escape with only minor physical wounds.

"I feel like we got out of there by a miracle," Cohen recalled tearfully. "I woke up this morning and the first thing that happened toa trap

However, the family was evidently the victim of a pre-planned ambush.

"Suddenly a boy around 12-years-old came to the window of my husband, who sat on the left side. ...The child started knocking on the window as we were driving," recalled Cohen, noting suddenly there were screams in the street and three cars blocked their forward movement.

At that point, Cohen said the bricks started flying, with the first breaking through the rear windshield: "that was a shock. I didn't believe it was happening to us. Another rock hit the window of my husband who sat behind my daughter who was driving, and broke it in. A third rock came through the broken rear windshield and hit the headrest of the friend of my son who was with us."

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