As Campus Reform wrote, Iriqat made further comments on X the day after the massacre, writing that “Justice shall prevail” and including a picture of text that read: “We will never forgive the Israeli right wing extreme government for making us take their children and elderly as hostages.”

During the Harvard discussion with Masoud, Iriqat expressed no regrets about her comments, saying that at the beginning of the Oct. 7 attack “nothing was reported on any casualties, no kidnapping, no nothing. All we had been receiving was images of Palestinian young, elderly, children just fleeing into the border defense to try to break the siege — to try to break the deadly blockage — and see that they have been suffering from for 17 years,” continued The Harvard Crimson. 

Iriqat seemed to double down on her comments in an email to Campus Reform, saying: “In framing/contextualizing and explaining my statement, In the morning of October 7, civilians in Gaza broke into the fence, and images of children, youth, and elderly running, riding motorcycles, and even paragliding and using every tool possible to break the deadly siege. As hundreds of unarmed civilians were running randomly towards the fence seeking freedom, at 6:45 am, very early morning hours, as images were coming out of Gaza describing people breaking the blockade and running for freedom, no casualties or deaths were yet reported, it was when I tweeted ‘today is a normal struggle for freedom.’”