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An unidentified woman was caught on camera in Brooklyn ripping down posters of people who were kidnapped by Hamas in Israel.

The woman was seen tearing the posters from scaffolding this week in Williamsburg, which has a large Orthodox Jewish population.

Dozens of flyers lined the green wood and the video shows the woman taking them down one by one.

A man, who is filming the interaction, yells out in the video posted to Reddit: “Hey, hey, what are you doing?”

She ignores him and continues to calmly tear down the pages, crumbling them up in her hand before throwing them on the ground behind her.

“They’re innocent people,” the man yells out, to which the woman monotonously replies: “Yeah, they’re innocent.”

“They’re children, they’re babies, they’re elderly people,” the man continues. “Are you proud of yourself?”


  An unidentified woman was seen tearing down posters from scaffolding in Williamsburg – which has a large Orthodox Jewish population – this week. st-yoni/Reddit An unidentified woman was seen tearing down posters from scaffolding in Williamsburg – which has a large Orthodox Jewish population – this week. st-yoni/Reddit

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The woman becomes annoyed, shoving the papers in front of the man’s camera and as she stalks away with a male companion.

The man continues to scream after her: “These are innocent people, babies, mothers kidnapped!”


  The man who filmed the interaction scolded her and asked if she was “proud” of herself. “These are innocent people, babies, mothers kidnapped!” he yelled. “Are you proud of yourself?” st-yoni/Reddit The man who filmed the interaction scolded her and asked if she was “proud” of herself. “These are innocent people, babies, mothers kidnapped!” he yelled. “Are you proud of yourself?” st-yoni/Reddit

The woman begins to more aggressively tear down the posters in silence before her companion asks the man to “get out of her face.”

Several instances of New Yorkers ripping down similar flyers across the city surfaced this week.

An NYU student was seen tearing them down around campus downtown, while teenagers on the Upper East Side were seen doing the same on their walk home from school.

Israel-Hamas war: How we got here

2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.

2006: Terrorist group Hamas wins a Palestinian legislative election.

2007: Hamas seizes control of Gaza in a civil war.

2008: Israel launches military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the town of Sderot.

2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an early-morning ambush Oct. 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militants into Israeli towns.

Terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis, wounded more than 4,200, and took at least 200 hostage.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce, “We are at war,” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”

The Gaza Health Ministry — which is controlled by Hamas — reported at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured since the war began.

An Iranian-Israeli who survived the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, told The Post that she feels safer in the war-torn country than she does since returning to the US.

“A lot of people have asked if I’m scared to go back to Israel after everything that’s happened, and my honest answer is … now more than ever, I want to move to Israel,” Natalie Sanandaji, 28, said as she calmly recalled her terrifying ordeal.

“Even with everything going on, I feel safer there than I do in the U.S. right now.”

Sanandaji, who lives in on Long Island, said this is the first time in her life that she started to get hate for her faith.

Despite NYC’s large Jewish population, swastikas and pentagrams have popped up on Jewish businesses and on public property nearby, and Sanandaji said her friends are removing their mezuzahs from their doors to hide their identities.

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