Bella Hadid is fact-checked by Instagram for posting pictures of Syrian war kids while sharing support for Palestine: ‘Gaza on my mind’

Bella Hadid has been fact-checked again after posting photos of Syrian children while expressing support for Gaza and the Palestinians.

On Monday, the 27-year-old supermodel shared a photo of children in Yarmouk after an attack by dictator Bashar al-Assad 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 message saying the post lacked important context and could mislead people.

The note links to a web page explaining that the images come from a refugee camp in Syria.

Instagram added a note saying it was missing important context and could mislead people

The misleading post remains on Hadid’s Instagram for almost a day after publication and has already been liked more than a million times

It reads: ‘This message is misleading. This video was not shot in Palestine. The video dates from 2013, from the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus.’

The misleading post remains on Hadid’s Instagram for almost a day after publication and has already been liked more than a million times.

It is not the first time that 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 during the war, claiming they had been taken to Gaza during the ongoing conflict with Israel.

She wrote at the time: ‘Thousands of innocent Palestinian men, women and CHILDREN imprisoned without trial.’

Syrian-Americans have been quick to take up the model because of misleading reports about the war.

“This is not the first time she has done this with the SAME IMAGES of children from Yarmouk,” wrote American Enterprise Institute fellow Kareem Rifai.

In November, the millionaire posted the same images of children in Syria sharing their hopes and dreams during the war, claiming they had been taken to Gaza.

‘Completely unacceptable and irresponsible for a mega-celebrity with a huge reach. Syrians are still being killed by Assad every day.”

Just two days ago, Hadid’s father, real estate mogul Mohammad Hadid, was forced to apologize for a slew of hateful messages he sent to New York Congressman Ritchie Torres.

A New York Post report details how Hadid has attacked Torres online in recent months over the congressman’s support for Israel following the October 7 Hamas attacks.

In text messages to Torres, Hadid labeled him “worse than the rats in the New York sewer system.”

Torres, who is gay, was also told by the model’s father that he “might get a job as a bouncer at a gay bar,” and that he should “dress like a KKK to hide that ugly gray-colored face of yours.” .

Despite the backlash to the published posts, Hadid apologized for his language but took the opportunity to throw a few more insults at Torres.

He said Torres is a “shill” for Israel, a state that not only “mistreats black and brown people, but also covers up their atrocities by using their targeted gay rights as a shield for their human rights abuses.”

“My feeling after 76 years of being a refugee from the country where I and my ancestors were born and seeing a genocide is at an all-time high,” he continued.

‘I see American politicians working like AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] messengers of genocide.

“I used the wrong words to express this anger, but the anger is justified. It is wrong to let black, brown and other marginalized communities do the dirty work in two countries that have never respected them.

“I apologize to my community for focusing the conversation on this. And even for a minute away from Palestine. All eyes on Palestine. Liberate Palestine.’

Torres, who made history when he became the first openly gay African American and openly gay Latin American congressman in 2021, said he felt “dehumanized” by Hadid’s posts.