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Actress Susan Sarandon Bashes Israel’s Military Campaign Against Hamas, Shares False Info About Gaza War
Susan Sarandon at the 20th edition of the Magna Graecia Film Festival in August 2023. Photo: Marco Provvisionato/IPA/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect
Academy Award-winning American actress Susan Sarandon has become one of Hollywood’s most outspoken critics of Israel during its war with the Hamas terror group, repeatedly posting on social media against Israel’s military operations in Gaza and often promoting false information.
In recent days, Sarandon has been especially active in her anti-Israel online postings and even attended a “Free Palestine” rally last week in New York City, where she told the crowd that Israel was allegedly committing war crimes in Gaza.
On Thursday, the Thelma & Louise star shared a video on X/Twitter in which a Norwegian doctor talked about Israel’s alleged “systematic man-made slaughtering of patients” at Al Shifa, the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital. The doctor also described an “unprecedented attack on [a] civilian society occupied by one of the most brutal and ruthless armies in the world,” a clear reference to the Jewish state and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The physician, who worked in Al Shifa, also accused Israel of racism.
The IDF said on Wednesday that at the same hospital, they found a command center, weapons, and combat gear belonging to Hamas terrorists. The Israeli military shared footage from inside the hospital — showing military equipment found even behind MRI machines — and also said that the “beating heart” of Hamas’ operations was headquartered in tunnels beneath Al Shifa, putting at risk the lives of civilians inside the hospital in violation of international law. The US confirmed the assertion about Hamas’ command center being located under the hospital with its own intelligence.
On Tuesday, Sarandon reposted a message in support of a plan by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to introduce a bill that would block a $320 million package of US weapons for Israel. She also shared a video of a US Army veteran accusing Israel of war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
The Stepmom actress previously shared on X information about how to boycott brands that have ties to Israel; posted the accusation that Israel “lied about 40 beheaded babies to justify a genocide”; and reposted a video of the chairman of the Jewish Network for Palestine saying, “It’s not Jews vs. Muslims, it’s the oppressors vs the oppressed and it started in 1948 when Israel was founded on violence and theft.”
Sarandon’s posts against Israel during its war against Hamas — such as accusing the Jewish state of apartheid and committing a “Gaza Holocaust” — go as far back as Oct. 8, just one day after Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel, killed over 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped more than 240 others. Instead of posting to condemn the Hamas atrocities, Sarandon instead posted messages on X that called Gaza an “open-air prison” and shared the hashtag “GazaGenocide.” The actress did not mention that Israel withdrew all its soldiers and civilian settlers from Gaza in 2005.
Sarandon attended a pro-Palestinian rally on Nov. 9 in New York City’s Bryant Park where thousands of protesters held banners that read “Free Palestine,” “End all US aid to apartheid Israel,” and “Resistance against occupation is a human right.” Other signs held by protesters said “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” — a slogan widely interpreted as a call for the destruction of Israel, which is located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, so it can be replaced with “Palestine.”
Addressing the crowd at the rally, Sarandon accused Israel of committing a war crime for what she called the “slaughter” of children in the Gaza Strip and claimed that “war crimes are being delivered every single day.” She also compared the Hamas massacre against civilians in Israel on Oct. 7 to the plight of the Palestinians.
“So many people don’t understand the context in which this Oct. 7 assault happened,” she said. “They don’t understand the history of what has been happening to the Palestinian people for 75 years … it’s time that Palestine be free.”
Sarandon was also among the dozens of celebrities who signed a letter sent to US President Joe Biden last month, urging him to press for a ceasefire to the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.