PARIS, France — French publisher Hachette said Wednesday it was recalling three textbooks for high-school students that refer to the victims of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led onslaught in Israel as “Jewish settlers.”

The worst attack in Israeli history saw thousands of terrorists from Gaza kill some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and seize 251 hostages from communities close to the border and from a nearby music festival.

The study manuals for final-year students refer to all the victims as “Jewish settlers” — a term usually used to describe Israelis living in West Bank settlements, while the Gaza-area communities are within Israel’s internationally recognized borders.

“In October 2023, following the death of more than 1,200 Jewish settlers in a series of Hamas attacks, Israel decided to tighten its economic blockade and invade a large part of........

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