Open this photo in gallery: Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from Ashkelon, in southern Israel, on Oct. 15.AMIR COHEN/Reuters Kaveh Shahrooz is a lawyer, human-rights activist and senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. When the Nobel Peace Prize was announced on Oct. 6, I was asked by my colleagues at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute to write a profile of the 2023 winner, imprisoned Iranian human-rights activist Narges Mohammadi. It seemed simple enough. Then, the following day, the Hamas attack happened. It became difficult to focus on writing about Ms. Mohammadi as Hamas’s...