JERUSALEM, Feb 9: Israeli history teacher Meir Baruchin has paid a high price for denouncing the war in Gaza: he was sacked from his job and even locked up as a "high-risk detainee".
The school teacher triggered a firestorm after Hamass attack on Israel on October 7, by posting a photo of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army.
He has now been given permission to teach students again at the Yitzhak Shamir High School in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv.
But the approval is only provisional and he has to do so remotely so as not to cause incidents.
Baruchin, 62, remains critical that even talking about the fate of Palestinians in Gaza can prompt legal action.
Israel was traumatised by Hamass unprecedented attack, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,160 dead, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.
Palestinian militants also took some 250 hostages, 132 of whom remain in their hands.
In response, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas and launched a devastating offensive that has left more than 27,500 people dead in Gaza, most of them women, children and adolescents, according to the Hamas-run territorys health ministry.
"If you go out in the street you hear two basic arguments," Baruchin told AFP.
"Some people say: We don care about killing innocent civilians in Gaza after what Hamas did to us on October 7, they deserve it. —AFP
