His wife and children were in the safe room as Matan mounted an ambush from the room beside it

Matan Malichi, a member of Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha, lay in ambush for terrorists in the room adjoining the safe room of his home, while his wife and children hid inside the safe room. He alerted a friend from the elite Duvdevan unit, Ahia Sharvit, who looked for weapons and reinforcements. In the meantime, the terrorists ate and drank in the kitchen, exited and entered the house and other houses on the kibbutz, and burned down a neighboring house with a woman inside. When one of the terrorists tried to enter the safe room, Malichi shot him dead — with a single bullet, in the hope of not attracting attention — and hid the body. Finally, when Sharvit arrived with a force from the Border Police, the terrorists fled and Malichi took part in clearing the kibbutz of terrorists.