In an interview with FRANCE 24, Israeli former hostage Shoshan Haran said "we were naive" about Hamas before the October 7, 2023 attack on her kibbutz. Held in Gaza for 50 days, she recalled refusing to "show weakness" to her captors. She also called the accusations of genocide against Israel "a lie" and shared her late husband's last words.
Shoshan Haran, an agronomist and founder of the NGO Fair Planet, was taken hostage by Hamas from her home in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023. Speaking from Durham, North Carolina, as her memoir "Mission in Captivity" comes out in English, she looked back on the community's ties with Gaza. People from the enclave worked in the kibbutz, and many of its residents drove sick children from Gaza to Israeli hospitals.
