Oct. 7 Series ‘Red Alert’ Is a Harrowing Recreation of the Hamas Terror Attacks, but Can’t Escape Its Politically Fraught Context: TV Review
George Mihalcea
The four-part series “ Red Alert ,” a scripted account of the terror attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, gains its power from the absence of context. As conceived by writer, director and co-creator Lior Chefetz (“The Stronghold”), the story eschews a bird’s-eye view of Hamas militants’ incursion from the Gaza Strip, the IDF’s counteroffensive or the broader history of a conflict now well into its eighth decade. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is never mentioned; neither is
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