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Bella Hadid slams Israeli forces for attacking slain Al Jazeera journalist's funeral procession

Bella Hadid slams Israeli forces for attacking slain Al Jazeera journalist's funeral procession

She said it was indicative of the kind of torture and abuse Palestinians face at the hands of the Israeli military.
14 May, 2022

Palestinian-American model Bella Hadid has slammed news that Israeli police officers charged Palestinian mourners carrying the coffin of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Friday as they led her casket through Jerusalem's Old City. The news was followed by an outpouring of grief and rage on social media over her killing and the subsequent attack, which Hadid called "torture" and "abuse".

Abu Akleh, who had covered Palestinian affairs and the Middle East for more than two decades, was shot while reporting on an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. Palestinian authorities have described Abu Akleh's killing as an assassination by Israeli forces. Al Jazeera in its news reports has also said she was shot by Israeli forces.

On May 14, the Victoria Secret model took to Instagram and asked how someone can watch this and not scream in "rage and cry painful tears", how no one sees their mothers, fathers, grandfathers, sisters and brothers in the eyes of Palestinians.

Hadid has been very vocal on social media in support of Palestinians and the cruelty against them. The 25-year-old model wrote, "Not only to watch a veteran like Shireen be disrespected and thrown around like this, on her way from the hospital to the church, for the last time to Rest in Peace. But also to watch our mourning elderly and people be slammed around, pushed down, scared for their lives! I lay here feeling helpless and there are people really sitting behind their computer screens trying to validate this! Make excuses for it even!"

She said that there is "no excuse" for such kind of behaviour, especially on the most holy land in the world. In her Instagram post she questioned what kind of threat "people mourning a loved one" present and said it was a funeral procession to lay a Palestinian veteran to rest.

"Beyond anything she is a human being. Shireen’s life as a Palestinian journalist has always been a threat to them, dead or alive. Although, we are never failed to be reminded that our existence as Palestinians is a threat in general, journalist or not. She had no weapons, showed no violence, just a camera. In return? A sniper bullet to the head. And repetitive shots at anyone who tried to help revive her," she wrote.

She questioned what the IDF soldiers "have to hide" that they continue the killing of journalists in the city. It says a lot about the Israeli military system, their government and "their geo-political game they pawn their people off to", she said.

For her, the attack meant a way for the forces to silence mourners with "abuse, batons, tear gas, below the belt kicks and more violence". The model argued that the latest attack also meant that the IDF wants to control Palestinian "emotions, voice, losses and grief" in addition to the rest of their existence.

Her post received comments from her sisters Alana and Marielle Hadid, Sudanese-Australian model Adut Akech, New Zealand choreographer Parris Goebel, street-fashion brand I. Am. Gia CEO Alana Pallister, and photographer Alex White.

Previously the supermodel had used her platform to voice against oppression all over the world. As celebrities united over Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hadid had reminded people that all form of oppression deserves the same level of backlash, including the oppression in Palestine.

Comments

John May 14, 2022 02:26pm
Just to be in news
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M Emad May 14, 2022 02:28pm
Al Jazeera journalist promoting Hamas.
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Simba May 14, 2022 03:05pm
Irrelevant nonsense by a wannabe fluff.
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Bab May 14, 2022 03:15pm
Appreciate the stand taken by her!
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FAZ May 14, 2022 03:16pm
Relax Bella. Its not Ukraine.
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Khan May 14, 2022 03:20pm
@Simba Do you have any humanity left?
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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad May 14, 2022 03:42pm
She is 100 percent right. Where are other fake Hollywood and Bollywood actors and actresses who make tremendous hue and cry when even a small kitten is lost or abused?
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kamal chowkidar May 14, 2022 03:55pm
Will it a funeral procession or a Jalsa?
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Cye May 14, 2022 03:58pm
No one will do anything because it’s Israeli atrocity. If it’s done by someone else the whole west will make a big deal.
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Daud May 14, 2022 05:07pm
@FAZ it is everything we have.. It will be next Dehli or Mumbai next..
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Kris May 14, 2022 05:43pm
Its sad and guilty shud be punished if deliberate act. Civilians who r not throwing stones shud not be hurt.
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MA May 14, 2022 06:07pm
She has more courage then any of our leaders
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Tahmad May 14, 2022 07:06pm
So sad, the World is divided between right and wrong, between humanity, between hatred and love and between Christians-Jews-Muslims and UN is just a rubber stamps organization.
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Shahab Taj May 14, 2022 08:48pm
@Cye HOW TRUE IT IS
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Zulfiqar May 14, 2022 10:54pm
She is a brave girl . Always standing up to Palestinian rights at the cost of losing money.
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Rahat May 14, 2022 11:01pm
@Daud Why not epicenter of terror- any city in Pakistan?
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Reporter May 15, 2022 01:27am
@John click click, now you are news, but just non-objective
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Truth be told May 15, 2022 03:49am
Love Bella and her tatas but don't agree with her being labeled as the most beautiful woman in the world. Admire her passion and voicing concerns for a just cause.
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Shahid May 15, 2022 07:59am
Can’t see any difference between the brutalities by Israel and Russia. And the USA did nothing different in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syris.
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Zain May 15, 2022 09:45am
Sitting in plush mansion in America and sheddin crocodile tears for attention.
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Zain May 15, 2022 09:46am
@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad They are at same place where our celebs hide when terror attacks takes place in world.
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Far East May 15, 2022 09:55am
Can we atleast admit that a funeral has to be respected? Regardless of race, religion or colour?
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Raj May 15, 2022 12:01pm
When mosques with muslims are bombed by fellow muslims..she will do susu ( and sell her susu photos to jewish agents )
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ENGR Hamid Shafiq May 15, 2022 03:10pm
@M Emad then what difference between Hamas and Israel?
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ENGR Hamid Shafiq May 15, 2022 03:10pm
@John it’s international news
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Hakim May 15, 2022 03:18pm
She is not all looks. She has some brains, too and cares about important issue. Unlinke some haters with message content irrelevant to the actual issue. If a tyrant is using his force unlawfully detaining and hurting a whole people, they should be denounced. There should be no excuse what Nazis did to them. If you do the same, you are same.
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KM May 15, 2022 05:08pm
@M Emad shame on you. I visited that area twice. What she is saying 100% right.
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Tariq May 15, 2022 06:14pm
@John don’t be silly- she did not die to be in the news - she was killed in cold blood and then the same people attacked her funeral
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Skeptic@ May 15, 2022 07:23pm
I am glad that Pakistani brother are setting aside their misogyny at least this time to praise a half-clad Victoria Secret’s model. I consider that progress.
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Daanish May 15, 2022 08:26pm
What can you expect from an apartheid regime
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Dawar Hussain May 16, 2022 12:58am
She has the guts to speak her heart out. Unlike a lot of so called humanitarians. Angelina jolie visited ukraine but never a word of support for Palestine. Even those who raised a voice for Palestine were forced to switch sides or shut their mouth
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KM May 16, 2022 03:30pm
@Skeptic@ please mend your sick minded thinking. They are praising her thoughts not her figures.
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