Ex-hostage hits back at online critics: ‘Wish death upon Hamas and our enemies, not me’

Freed hostage Liri Albag describes the online invective she was subject to after she criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the October 7 terror attack during an interview.

“Am reading the threats and curses I received, and I’m afraid. I’m not afraid of the responses themselves… I am afraid of what we’ve turned into,” Albag writes on Instagram.

“Wishing someone would be in captivity??? I wouldn’t wish that upon my haters. Make fun of my weight? Reminds me of the same terrorists who shouted at me and made sure to remind me daily that I’m fat. To promise death and revenge??? Wish this upon Hamas and our enemies, not me.”

Albag continues: “And why all this? Because I said the prime minister is responsible for the failure [of October 7]…. And yes, all the security leadership is to blame, don’t worry. I told them this in my meetings with them!!! And of course foremost to blame for the country’s nightmare is Hamas. I don’t forget this terror group for a moment, and I personally want revenge against it. Hamas is the enemy!!!!!!”

“You know what is the most difficult? That this [societal] rift is worse than our enemies. We can’t win like this!!” she adds. “As the Jewish nation that has been attacked time after time, since Egypt until today, let’s fight our enemies and not one another. You will never understand what we went through there and I don’t wish for you to understand!”