- The supermodel, 27, shared an image of children in Yarmouk after an assault by dictator Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian civil war
- In November, the millionaire posted the same images of children in Syria and claimed they were taken in Gaza during the ongoing conflict with Israel.
Bella Hadid has been verified again after posting photos of Syrian children while expressing her support for Gaza and the Palestinians.
On Monday, the supermodel, 27, shared an image of children in Yarmouk after dictator Bashar al-Assad’s assault during the Syrian civil war.
She captioned the Instagram post: “Gaza on my mind.”
After social media users began pointing out that the children in the photos were from Syria, Instagram added a note saying the post was missing important context and could mislead people.
The note links to a website that explains that the images come from a refugee camp in Syria.
Bella Hadid has been verified once again after posting photos of Syrian children while expressing her support for Gaza and the Palestinians.
Instagram added a note saying it was missing important context and could mislead people
The misleading post remains on Hadid’s Instagram almost a day after it was posted and has received more than a million likes.
It says: ‘This post is misleading. This video was not filmed in Palestine. The video dates back to 2013 and was recorded in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus.
The misleading post remains on Hadid’s Instagram almost a day after it was posted and has received more than a million likes.
This is not the first time Hadid, whose father was born in Palestine, has shared images from Syria without context.
In November, the millionaire posted the same images of children in Syria sharing their hopes and dreams amid the war and claimed they were taken in Gaza during the ongoing conflict with Israel.
At the time, he wrote: “Thousands of innocent Palestinian men, women and CHILDREN imprisoned without trial.”
Syrian Americans were quick to criticize the model for misleading posts about the war.
“This is not the first time he has done this with these SAME IMAGES of Yarmouk children,” wrote Kareem Rifai, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
In November, the millionaire posted the same images of children in Syria sharing their hopes and dreams amid the war and claimed they were taken in Gaza.
‘Completely unacceptable and irresponsible for a mega-celebrity with a massive reach. Assad continues to kill Syrians every day.”
Just two days ago, Hadid’s father, real estate mogul Mohammad Hadid, was forced to apologize for a series of hateful messages he sent to New York Congressman Ritchie Torres.
A New York Post report detailed how Hadid has spent the past few months attacking Torres online over the congressman’s support for Israel following the October 7 Hamas attacks.
In text messages to Torres, Hadid called him “worse than the rats in the New York sewer system.”
The model’s father also told Torres, who is gay, that he “could get a job as a bouncer at a gay bar” and that he should “dress like the KKK to hide that ugly gray face of yours.”
Given the backlash to the posted messages, Hadid apologized for her language, but took the opportunity to hurl some more insults at Torres.
He said Torres is an ‘accomplice’ of Israel, ‘a state that not only ‘mistreats black and brown people but paints its atrocities pink by using projected gay rights as a shield for its human rights violations.’
“My feeling after 76 years of being a refugee from the country where my ancestors and I were born and watching a genocide unfold is at an all-time high,” he continued.
‘I’m watching American politicians work like AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] messengers of genocide.
‘I used the wrong words to express this anger, but the anger is justified. Sending black, brown, and other marginalized communities to do the dirty work of two countries that have never respected them is wrong.
‘I apologize to my community for directing the conversation to this. And even for a minute away from Palestine. All eyes on Palestine. Free Palestine.’
Torres, who made history when in 2021 he was the first openly gay African-American and openly gay Hispanic member of Congress, said he felt ‘dehumanized’ by Hadid’s messages.