Shocking video shows the moment two women tore down posters of innocent civilians who were taken hostage by Hamas, with one shouting ‘this is for Palestine!’
The British Israeli woman who filmed the encounter has revealed how she received verbal abuse from other members of the public while putting the fliers up in north London.
Neta Fibeefh, who came back to the UK on one of British Airways’ final flights out of Tel Aviv this week, said things have been ‘unpleasant’ and ‘upsetting’ since she returned.
The 23-year-old said some of her Jewish friends have been ‘scared’ on the streets of Britain since the conflict broke out, being sworn at and even trying to hide their religion to avoid abuse.
The PhD student, who knows someone who was abducted by Hamas, told MailOnline that she was sworn at and intimidated by members of the public as she put the fliers out to ‘advocate for human rights’.
Neta Fibeefh, 23, a British Israeli student who came back to the UK on one of British Airways’ final flights out of Tel Aviv this week
One of the posters shows four-year-old Ariel, whose kidnapping alongside his months-old baby brother Kfir and their mother Shiri Silberman-Bibas horrified the world
Asked by an onlooker ‘why don’t you do something for Palestine?’ one of the women replies furiously ‘this is for Palestine!’
The posters, designed by kidnappedfromisrael.com, show images of Israelis abducted by Hamas terrorists
One of the posters shows four-year-old Ariel, whose kidnapping alongside his months-old baby brother Kfir and their mother Shiri Silberman-Bibas horrified the world.
Neta and her mother were putting out the posters around Mornington Crescent, north London, when people came to rip them down.
Two women then approached them and started ‘aggressively tearing off the flyers’, with Neta filming the moment she confronted them.
Asked by another onlooker ‘why don’t you do something for Palestine?’ one of the women replies furiously ‘this is for Palestine!’
Neta then tells the pair that the issues are ‘not mutually exclusive,’ before adding in reference to the missing posters ‘it’s children, it’s innocent people.’
Clutching stacks of the posters, the woman then shouts back: ‘How about the children in Palestine?’
Neta told MailOnline in the aftermath of her experience: ‘This past week has been just devastating.
‘Innocents have been kidnapped – a close family friend of mine, her grandma is one of those who has been abducted.’
She added: ‘I feel safer in the UK because it’s not a warzone, but it is still really unpleasant here. It’s just really upsetting.
‘I know a lot of people who are scared about being Jewish now in the UK.
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‘One of my friends is more religious than me, he wears a kippah and has been walking around for several days with a hat, and my dad saw someone wearing a kippah get sworn at.’
Neta and her mother were putting out the posters around Mornington Crescent, north London, when people came to rip them down
Two women then approached them and started ‘aggressively tearing off the flyers’, with Neta filming the moment she confronted them
Shocking video shows two women tearing down posters of innocent civilians taken hostage by the terrorists shortly after they were put up in north London
Neta was born in Israel but came to the UK with her family when she was three, before recently moving back to study a PhD at Tel Aviv University.
She said that all of her friends back in Israel are sheltering from the missiles and that people her age are being called up as combat reserves.
She said she has been ‘restless’ since returning to the UK and wanted to do something to help, so picked picked up the fliers.
‘We were advised to go in groups for our safety,’ she said, but she decided to start leafleting as she waited for her parents to join her.
She was then approached by a man, she said who told her: ‘I don’t understand why you are doing this, this is karma, they brought this upon themselves.’
‘I replied “It’s children, it’s innocent civilians” and they said “it’s karma for what their people are doing”‘.
She said a man then came right up to her and swore at her, giving her the middle finger as he shouted ‘free Palestine’.
Neta said: ‘It’s outrageous that in other places in the world where terror attacks are happening you don’t have to justify to people why its wrong.
‘It’s not a political view, it’s just advocating for human rights.’
Hamas terrorists launched a bloody raid on villages near the Gaza border, killing at least 260 festivalgoers and countless more.
They took around 150 people hostage, including mothers and children and a Holocaust survivor.
Israel declared a war on Hamas in response, and has been bombarding the heavily-populated Gaza Strip with bombs since.
Israel has reported at least 1,300 deaths since the conflict broke out, according to the country’s public broadcaster Kan.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Health Ministry has said 1,417 people have been killed in Gaza.
