Educator fired after accidentally showing kids graphic Oct. 7 footage

An extracurricular coordinator in the central Israel town of Kochav Ya’ir has been fired after she mistakenly screened a video that included graphic footage from the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught to fifth-grade students, Ynet reports.

The footage featured severed body parts, bullet-riddled bodies, and the screams of wounded people, according to the report.

“This is everything we’ve tried to keep them from seeing for a year and a half. The children are terribly traumatized,” one mother says.

The educator had put on a video about the Magen David Adom ambulance service, without realizing that it included such footage. She then left the room, and was unaware when the graphic segment started playing, according to the report.

The Education Ministry, which stresses it did not employ the woman, and the Kochav Ya’ir regional council both say in statements that professional support, including a psychologist, has been provided to the school.