Hostage Survivor Slams "Accidental Damage" Film Creator Over Hamas Stance

Hostage survivor Lyri Albag has launched a scathing online attack against Yuval Avraham, one of the creators of the film "Accidental Damage" (Naza), which recently won an award at the Venice Film Festival. Albag, who endured captivity, directly addressed Avraham on Instagram, challenging his perspective on Hamas and the October 7th attacks.

Albag criticized Avraham's brief two-week military service, which she stated ended due to political and personal reasons. She argued that regardless of his service length or political views, if he had been captured by Hamas, he would have been treated as a soldier and likely abused. "You know that even if you were only in the army for two weeks and were discharged because of your political views, if you were captured by Hamas, in their eyes you were a soldier anyway? And they probably would have abused you for being a soldier," she wrote.

She sarcastically questioned Avraham's apparent illusions about the terrorists' intentions. "Do you understand that on October 7th, if you were in the Gaza envelope, none of the terrorists would have stopped and said: 'Hey leave him alone, he's fine - let's not hurt him'? Or would you have simply joined the 'struggle for Palestinian liberation' and harmed your own people?"

Albag expressed her disgust, stating she no longer felt a shared connection with the filmmakers. "I wanted to write at first 'blood of your blood,' but then I remembered that we absolutely do not share the same blood. And lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Disgusting. You sold your people for people who wish for your death, and for that there is no forgiveness," she declared.

She concluded her post with an aggressive call for the creators' removal from Israel, questioning how such individuals hold citizenship. "How the hell do people like this have citizenship here?!?!?! Launch them on a missile out of our country."