WATCH: Nir Oz Survivor And Peace Activist Describes The ‘Cruelty’ Of Palestinian CIVILIANS On Oct. 7

NOTE: This article may include commentary reflecting the author’s position.
Irit Lahav, 57, a resident of the Kibbutz Nir Oz that was attacked by Hamas terrorists two months ago, used to be a peace activist who had believed in the decency of Palestinians. Her outlook completely changed after the attack on October 7.

She said that most people who lived in Nir Oz were pretty liberal and believed that the residents of the Gaza Strip wanted the same things that they wanted — peace and prosperity — and that Hamas was out of step with the civilians.

“We thought that Palestinians are good people. All they want is peace and prosperity,” Lahav said. “It’s just that Hamas is forcing them to be in this aggressive situation.”

She said that she thought it was a good thing that Israel pulled out all settlements in the Gaza Strip in 2005 and was hopeful that this would bring peace … until rockets started coming from Gaza into Israel.

Hamas has been relentless in attacking Israel since they assumed control of the Gaza Strip. While some bleeding-heart leftists call it an “open-air prison” it can more accurately be described as an open-air terror camp with a vast, fortified tunnel system to protect the terrorists.

Despite the constant attacks, Lahav, the manager of a travel company, often participated in peace rallies in Israel. She had even volunteered with an Israeli charity called “Road to Recovery” that would bring Palestinian children from the border of the Gaza Strip to hospitals in Israel for lifesaving medical treatment.

Those same hospitals are often the targets of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket attacks.

Now she wonders if she was just being foolish for believing that coexistence with Palestinians was possible.

It’s quite the change of heart.

She realizes now that all the money that flowed into Gaza as foreign aid wasn’t being used to make the Gaza Strip better for Palestinians, it was all being used for weapons.

Nir Oz was one of the main targets of the attack on October 7 — more than 1 in 4 residents was abducted or murdered by Hams terrorists. Of the 70 residents that have been taken hostage, 40 have been released, 30 remain in Gaza, and it was recently reported that some of the hostages have been declared dead in captivity bringing the total dead from Kibbutz Nir Oz to 46.

Lahav spoke to the Washington Free Beacon from a hotel in Eilat, a resort city near the Red Sea where residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz are being temporarily housed, about what it was that changed her perspective — the participation of Palestinian citizens in the terror attack on October 7.

When terrorists first shook the door of her safe room on Oct. 7, Lahav was sure that she and her 22-year-old daughter were about to be killed. But a makeshift lock she had fashioned out of an oar and a vacuum cleaner thwarted three separate break-in attempts. The women lay in the darkened room for about 10 hours listening to sounds of automatic gunfire and grenade explosions. At one point, they heard a group of teenagers robbing their house.
Later, Lahav learned from other Nir Oz survivors that Gazan women and children as young as 10 years old had followed Hamas terrorists into the kibbutz, looting, helping the armed terrorists, and apparently enjoying themselves.
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“Basically it was sort of an invasion of a community,” Lahav said. “That’s why for me, I cannot say this was a Hamas action. No, for me, this was a Palestinian action. A whole community had come to our kibbutz, took our things, stole stuff, killed people, and kidnapped others.”

“Am I thinking about myself being foolish until now?” Lahav added. “Maybe. But more is that I’m disappointed in them, that they’re so cruel, have no values, really lost their human values.”

Hamas is widely supported in the Gaza Strip with 3/4 of Palestinians polled saying that they support the barbaric October 7 attack.

🚨 A new opinion poll shows 75% of Palestinians SUPPORT Hamas’ barbaric Oct 7 attack on Israeli civilians.

That means 3/4 of those we bring here believe in massacring, beheading, gang-raping and kidnapping for political gain.

Are you paying attention yet? pic.twitter.com/krMsrOPSFP

— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) December 3, 2023

Hamas also controls the flow of information coming out of Gaza.

• New York Times FINALLY Admits That Hamas Controls The News Coming Out Of Gaza
• WATCH: Saudi Journo Is More Honest About Hamas Than The New York Times
• PROPAGANDA PRESS: Useful Idiots In The Media Back Off From Calling Hamas Terrorists ‘Terrorists’
• EXPOSED: Associated Press Photojournalist Has A History Of Anti-Semitic Tweets
• WaPo Caption Said Israeli Children Held As Hostages In Gaza Were ‘Detained’ By Hamas

It’s a propaganda war, and our “betters” in the media, academia, the United Nations, and certain “progressive” politicians are — wittingly or accidentally — on the side of Hamas.

They can look at a mass terror attack against innocent civilians, kidnapping, torture, decapitation, desecration of bodies, unimaginable physical and psychological cruelty, the use of rape as a weapon of war, and out-right murder and say that it’s “important to understand the context.”

That’s why it’s vital to get the perspectives of people like Irit Lahav whose community was a victim of this attack.

Is she right? It’s her perspective. She’s the one who lives just 2 miles from the Gaza Strip.

Irit Lahav has every bit as much right to give her perspective as the genocidal Useful Idiots on college campuses chanting “Globalize the Intifada!” and “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!”

She actually it’s even more important to hear her view because she is speaking about her own experience, these kids are just parroting what they saw on TikTok.

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