The New York Post published an interview with a teacher from Gaza who issued a chilling warning: Stop the radical indoctrination of Gaza’s children, or Oct. 7 will happen again.

The teacher, whose name was withheld for her safety, said that she sought a teaching position in an UNRWA school because she thought that the U.N. would protect children from Hamas indoctrination but quickly found out how very wrong she was.

“I was shocked to find the reality was far different from what I had imagined,” she said, explaining that teachers openly glorified violence and the killing of Jews.

Teachers blamed the suffering of Gazans on Jews, not Hamas, teaching that the purpose of Hamas was to help Gazans and end the suffering, and they encouraged students to continue Hamas’ mission, she said. The UNRWA teacher expressed concern that Gazan children are particularly susceptible because they truly are suffering. She said she sees the problem as one where Gazans hate the consequences of Oct. 7 but support the massacre, which means they have not learned their lesson and thus may end up repeating it.

“Today [the danger is] more intense than ever because the children are actually suffering” specifically from Israeli airstrikes, she said.

Raising the issue in school led to confrontations with other teachers and eventually to threats.

A school administrator confronted her with a pair of scissors and said, “We’ll make you wish for death, and if you don’t stop arguing, we will cut your tongue,” she said.

Fearing for her life and the lives of her loved ones, she stopped talking.

But after teaching for 15 years, she decided to speak out and to raise awareness in order to do what she can to disrupt the cycle of violence.

“As a teacher, it’s my duty to convey an accurate picture and call upon the world to save our children from these ideas,” she said. “My most important message is that we need to care about who is teaching our kids.”

The teacher said that since the war began, the problem of indoctrination has increased, with teachers who were extremists before the war returning to the classrooms.

The teacher “estimated that half or more of the teachers she encounters in Gaza believe violence against Jews is necessary to achieve Palestinian political goals,” the Post reported. “The teacher warned that many Palestinians condemn the devastation that followed Oct. 7, without rejecting the massacre itself.”

“’They hate the consequences of October 7. They hate the war that October 7 brought upon them. But they don’t hate October 7 itself,’ she said. Unless that mentality changes, the teacher said, she fears history will repeat itself.”

“If the upcoming generations in Gaza have the capabilities to make another attack, they will make it,” she said.

The teacher called for an overhaul of the school system and a major campaign of deradicalization, which she said is even more important than disarming Hamas, “because this can change the future.”