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Model Gigi Hadid Falsely Says Israel Guilty of Organ Harvesting After Accusing Jewish State of ‘Abduction, Rape, Torture’
Gigi Hadid seen during a photo shoot at Guest In Residence in Soho, New York City on October 18, 2023. Photo: MAGO/MediaPunch via Reuters Connect
Model Gigi Hadid made a series of false accusations about Israel and its treatment of Palestinians, while also promoting an antisemitic blood libel, to her more than 79 million Instagram followers over the weekend.
On Sunday, the 28-year-old shared on her Instagram Story a reel in which a user named Umme Murtaza (umme_murtazaa) tells her followers to “watch this disturbing video, where health officials admitted that Israeli authorities had harvested the organs of dead Palestinians for years without their consent.”
Accusing Israel of organ theft has been widely criticized as an antisemitic blood libel rooted in medieval conspiracies charging that Jews murdered Christian children and drank their blood during the Jewish holiday of Passover. The organ harvesting claim has been debunked several times in the past.
Two days earlier on Friday, Hadid shared on her Instagram Story a post about a Palestinian named Ahmad Al-Manasra who, the post claimed, had been imprisoned in Israel since he was 12. It further said that the youth has a “severe health condition” and like “hundreds of Palestinian children remain detained, suffering in Israeli jails.”
Hadid wrote in the caption of her Instagram Story about Al-Manasra: “Israel is the only country in the world that keeps CHILDREN AS PRISONERS OF WAR.” She then accused Israel of the “abduction, rape, humiliation, torture, [and] murder of Palestinians years and years and years before Oct. 7, 2023,” referring to the day when Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel, murdered 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took more than 240 others as hostages back to Gaza.
Hadid did not mention that Al-Manasra was jailed for carrying out, with his cousin, a stabbing attack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev in 2015 that injured two Israeli civilians — a 13-year-old, who was critically injured, and a 25-year-old, who was moderately injured. Al-Manasra was seriously injured when he was hit by a car as he tried to escape the scene of the attack. Security camera footage from the scene showed the Al-Manasra cousins carrying knives and chasing a man through the streets of Pisgat Ze’ev on Oct. 13, 2015. He carried out the attack when he was 13 and was convicted at the age of 14.
The post was later deleted amid severe backlash.
Also on Friday, Hadid shared on Instagram a news report about Palestinian women and children being released from prisons in Israel as part of the deal made with Hamas for the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization on Oct. 7. In a caption for that news report, Hadid made the false accusation that Israel “sees any Palestinian as a ‘terrorist,’ any person supporting Palestinian rights as an ‘antisemite,’ and any Jew that is opposed to the government’s actions as ‘self-hating.’”
“So … everyone’s lying and wrong except Israel?!!” she added. “If it wasn’t so evil & disturbing, it would be comedic.”
Just days after Hamas’ massacre on Oct. 7, Hadid posted on Instagram a statement that acknowledged both Palestinian and Israeli suffering while also condemning terrorism and accusing Israel of occupation. Then on Oct. 15, she was blasted by the Israeli government over a meme she shared on Instagram that attacked the country’s response to the Hamas terror attack earlier that month.
Hadid is the sister of fellow model Bella Hadid, who has repeatedly shared anti-Israel posts on social media. In 2021, Bella participated in a pro-Palestinian rally and chanted “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.
Their mother is former Dutch model Yolanda Hadid, and their father is Nazareth-both real estate developer Mohamed Hadid, who has also posted several anti-Israel messages on social media.
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Israel Receives Shipment of Heavy Bombs Cleared by Trump

US President Donald Trump looks on as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, Jan. 31, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Israel has received a shipment of heavy MK-84 bombs from the United States, after US President Donald Trump lifted a block imposed on the export of the munitions by the administration of predecessor Joe Biden, the defense ministry said on Sunday.
The MK-84 is an unguided 2,000 pound bomb, which can rip through thick concrete and metal, creating a wide blast radius.
The Biden administration declined to clear them for export to Israel out of concern about the impact on densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip.
The Biden administration sent thousands of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Palestinian Hamas terrorists from Gaza but later held up one of the shipments. The hold was lifted by Trump last month.
“The munitions shipment that arrived in Israel tonight, released by the Trump Administration, represents a significant asset for the Air Force and the IDF and serves as further evidence of the strong alliance between Israel and the United States,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said late on Saturday.
The shipment arrived after days of concern about whether a fragile ceasefire in Gaza agreed last month would hold, after both sides accused each other of violating the terms of the deal to halt fighting to allow the exchange of hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails.
Washington has announced assistance for Israel worth billions of dollars since the war began.
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US Mideast Envoy Says Phase Two Gaza Talks to Continue This Week

US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy-designate Steve Witkoff gives a speech at the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena on the inauguration day of Trump’s second presidential term, in Washington, DC, Jan. 20, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria
US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that talks on phase two of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian terrorists Hamas would continue this week “at a location to be determined” to figure out how to reach a successful conclusion.
He told Fox News that he had “very productive and constructive” calls on Sunday with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and Egypt’s director of intelligence.
Witkoff said they spoke about “the sequencing of phase two, setting forth positions on both sides, so we can understand… where we are today, and then continuing talks this week at a location to be determined so that we can figure out how we get to the end of phase two successfully.”
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Arab States to Reveal 5-Year Plan to Rebuild Gaza: No Hamas or Relocation

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends the Arab summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, May 31, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Hamad l Mohammed/File Photo.
i24 News – Arab countries will unveil their plan for the reconstruction of Gaza on February 27 in Cairo. This initiative, developed by the Palestinians and handed over to the Egyptians for implementation, will be presented to the leaders of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. The plan provides for reconstruction over three to five years, without the displacement of the Palestinian population and without Hamas control. The funding, estimated at several hundred million dollars, will come from Gulf countries. The work will be carried out by Egyptian companies, representing a significant source of income for Egypt, which is strongly opposed to any migration of Palestinians out of Gaza. The workforce will consist mainly of local Palestinians.
“The goal is to marginalize Hamas so that it understands that it has lost control of Gaza, and to completely eliminate the terrorist organization’s grip on the population and the territory within 5 years from the start of reconstruction,” a source involved in the plan said.
An independent “Palestinian administration,” separate from the Palestinian Authority but relying on it, will oversee the reconstruction. This power structure is designed to get the approval of Israel and the United States, who refuse direct management by the Palestinian Authority.
Arab countries fear a resurgence of fighting by Israel, which could, in their view, favor US President Donald Trump’s plan to move Palestinians to neighboring countries. The former US president said he wanted to see Jordan, Egypt, and other Arab countries welcome more displaced people from Gaza, so that the war-torn area can be “cleaned up.”
According to analyzed satellite images, approximately 65% of the buildings in Gaza have been destroyed during the war. Experts estimate that reconstruction could take more than a decade and cost several hundred billion dollars.
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