NIR OZ, Israel—Irit Lahav, a 58-year-old professional tour guide, knows how to walk clueless foreigners through unfamiliar terrain.
But in the year since she survived the Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacre in her kibbutz, Nir Oz, Lahav has struggled to explain to international media what happened that day. No matter how many interviews she arranges with her traumatized neighbors or tours she gives of their burned-out homes, many journalists have continued to tell the story of the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust as another chapter in Israel’s supposed persecution of the Palestinians.
“People are saying Israel is bad,” Lahav, a former peace activist, told the Washington Free Beacon during a visit to Nir Oz last week. “What? The Palestinians are holding our hostages … How would one feel if it was their daughter, their grandfather, their father, their 2 -year-old children, baby Kfir [Bibas in Hamas captivity]?”
Nir Oz was one of the first Israeli communities to be overrun on Oct. 7, and it was among the hardest hit. Some 120 Hamas and Hamas-affiliated terrorists and 800 Palestinian “civilians,” including women and children, poured into the kibbutz, massacring 41 people and abducting 76 others, according to Lahav. Israel responded with an ongoing war to destroy Hamas and return the hostages.
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