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Gigi Hadid, an outspoken advocate for Palestine, admitted of mistakenly spreading misinformation regarding Israel to her nearly 80 million followers on Instagram.
In a lengthy post on Tuesday, the supermodel wrote, “As someone of Palestinian descent, the endless heartbreaking news and imagery coming out of Gaza has been painful and often overwhelming.”
She added that it is important for her share stories of the hardships the Palestinians are going through, however, over the weekend, she shared something without doing “fact check or deeply think about prior to posting.”
The since-deleted post claimed Israel to be the “only country in the world who keeps children as prisoners of war.” The post also blamed Israel for abduction, rape, humiliation, torture, and murder of Palestinian for years before October 7, 2023.
Gigi also shared photos of Ahmed Manasara, a Palestinian man who was convicted of attempted murder in relation to 2015 stabbings of Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem. The picture also featured his cousin Hassan Manasara, who was shot dead by the police.
gigi hadid cares so much about her career and reputation because there is no way she is going back and forth on her statement about palestine…one day she can be preaching about gaza and the next she’s staying neutral. we been knew bella is the better hadid. pic.twitter.com/Yfkz2sSBPm
— ana (@withluvselena) November 28, 2023
Ahmed’s lawyers had argued in court that he has not stabbed anyone, despite of which he was sentenced to twelve years in prison, which was later reduced to nine and half years.
According to Amnesty International, Ahmed developed Schizophrenia and severe depression inside jail, which has been proved life threatening. Despite of this, he was not granted early release, which was used by Gigi as an example to enlighten how “hundreds of Palestinian children [who] remain detained, suffering in Israeli jails.”