Netflix and Kill: How a Palestinian Woman Took Over an Israeli Family’s Home on Oct. 7

We’ve not heard much about the Hamas/Israel War in the last week. I don’t think that means nothing is happening, though. As usually happens in a Middle East uprising, when killing turns into a normalized occurrence, today’s news simply turns into a “same old story.” Things are heating up in this war and it’s controlling the news and talking points that prove how divisive Middle East conflicts always same to be.

However, one journalist spotted a newsworthy item that we felt we needed to share with you. It’s an “everyday happening” in what is once again claiming to be the longest-running hate-filled skirmish that includes Israel.

Let’s get right to it.

Natali Yohanan, a 38-year-old mother of two, never locked the doors of her house in Nir Oz, a kibbutz near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip. There wasn’t even a key.

On October 7, a Gazan woman walked through Yohanan’s unlocked front door and made herself at home for hours, eating, singing, and watching Netflix. Sometimes, the woman served drinks to armed terrorists who stopped by for a break from the massacre they were conducting outside.

Yohanan, hiding with her family in the house’s safe room, did not get a chance to see the unwanted house guests. But she imagines the woman is a young mother like her and wonders how she could have been so cruel. Like many survivors of Hamas’s surprise attack from Gaza, Yohanan no longer believes coexistence with the Palestinians is possible.

“It’s tough for me as a mother to think about a woman who came to my home and saw the pictures of my kids and still came to steal and to terrify my kids,” Yohanan told the Washington Free Beacon at a hotel in this Red Sea resort city where her family relocated along with most of the kibbutz. “I never thought the common people, kids, and women, would participate in things like that. It broke my faith in the goodness of people, especially people from Gaza.”

Yohanan, an elementary school English teacher and lifelong resident of Nir Oz, said she “always hoped for peace” and for the Palestinians to get their own state. She believed that ordinary Gazans were victims of Hamas, the terrorist group that has governed Gaza for most of two decades.

“We’re a very peace-loving community. The country, they always make fun of us that we’re very people-loving and we want peace,” she said, noting that several members of the kibbutz regularly drove Palestinian children from the border of Gaza, less than two miles away, to Israeli hospitals for life-saving medical care. “I really believed that Hamas kidnapped Gaza.”

One of the first things the Gazan woman did when she entered Yohanan’s house was turn off the electricity in the safe room. So for 12 hours, until the Israeli Army finally arrived to evacuate them, Yohanan, her husband, and their two children, ages six and eight, were trapped in sweltering heat.

“My kids were begging for water,” Yohanan recalled.

Meanwhile, the woman “turned on Netflix and changed it to Arabic,” Yohanan said.

“She watched TV. She opened the fridge and heated up food. She drank Coke, and she talked to [her terrorist companions]: ‘Do you want Coke? Do you want coffee? They spent like five hours in my house, sitting on the sofa and just relaxing.”

Terrorists also occasionally shot at and banged on the safe room door, and they killed the family’s dog. When the woman left, she took Yohanan’s jewelry, makeup, underwear, shoes, sunglasses, passports, and her children’s clothing and toys.

“I think about it a lot, that maybe she looks like me, that she’s a young mother,” Yohanan said. “It was very hard for us to know that regular people, people we thought are not involved in the conflict, came just because they had an opportunity to plunder, to steal.”

According to a dozen members of Nir Oz, Gazan women and children as young as 10 years old followed Hamas terrorists into the kibbutz on October 7, looting, helping the armed terrorists, and apparently enjoying themselves.

“Basically it was sort of an invasion of a community,” Irit Lahav, a 57-year-old tour guide and peace activist from the kibbutz, told the Free Beacon. “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.”

Yohanan’s father was among at least 46 people from Nir Oz who were killed by terrorists on or after October 7. He was shot while trying to hold shut the door of his safe room. Many of Yohanan’s students and friends were also murdered. Across southern Israel, some 1,200 people were killed, most of them civilians.

More than 70 of the 240 hostages taken on that day were also from Nir Oz. Thirty of the hostages have since been released during Israel’s ongoing war to destroy Hamas.

“We have this sense of we want revenge, which is a horrible, horrible feeling,” Yohanan said. “I find myself showing my son video of houses being bombed in Gaza because I want to show him that Israel is still strong. I want to show him that the army is strong, that someone is protecting us because he doesn’t feel it anymore.”

Yohanan said her son is waiting for the next terror attack. If anyone knocks on their hotel room door, he panics. When he heard workers in the hotel dining room speaking Arabic, he took off running. Every night, he asks Yohanan if she locked the doors and windows.

“He is very mad at me that our house was completely open [on October 7],” Yohanan said. “I can’t say I’m not afraid as well. From my hotel room, I see an amazing view of the ocean and Jordan, and I think to myself, can they come? Are we safe here?”

The general consensus among the Nir Oz survivors is that they would like to return to the kibbutz, but only after the threat from Gaza has been dealt with. And nobody knows exactly what that means.

I don’t want Hamas to exist anymore. I want the normal, the good people in Gaza to rule. I want someone who my country can talk to. Right now, it sounds like it will never happen, but I want to believe for my kids,” Yohanan said. “I don’t want my kids to live in the same world that I do.”

Summary

I have a theory about the quieted news bulletins on Mainstream Media here in the U.S. Leftist media members and radical Hamas supporters and other Palestinians are feeling the sting of the angst of Americans — not for the combatants on both sides, but the horrendous stories of the barbarism by Hamas and how this genocide began on October 7. In fact, the support for Palestinians is growing in the United States while Israel is losing ground here. Why do you think that’s happening?

It’s no secret. In fact, millions of dollars have been pouring into the coffers of U.S. non-profits that are operated by anti-Israeli donors. In fact, we published a story a few weeks ago that identified who those non-profits are and how they operate. Who are these donors? One of the largest is, of course, George Soros and his non-profit entities. That comes as no surprise.

Conventional wisdom tells us that many of those U.S. dollars — in fact, MOST of those tax-free dollars — are used to fund dissident groups here and abroad to set up and operate these anti-Israeli/pro-Palestinian rallies. And the protestors are organized, transported, housed, and fed, who are really mercenaries! Many of the protestors, when asked why they are pushing for the cause of antisemitism, cannot explain to those questioning what their cause is!

Sadly, we live in a country where our constitutional First Amendment codifies their rights to “peaceably” assemble and speak their minds.

Our forefathers NEVER thought Americans would be so uneducated about such fundamental rights and their meanings that U.S. citizens would just fall in line with the drivel that spews antisemitism across America and around the World.