Actress Gal Gadot has demanded the world not ‘sit on the fence’ as she expressed support for her native country after hundreds were killed in a terror attack in Israel on Saturday.
The Wonder Woman star, 38, served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a combat trainer more than a decade ago, leading some to wonder if she could be called to fight in the war with Gaza.
On Saturday, the former Miss Israel 2004 was one of the first Hollywood names to speak out in support of Israel, sharing news of the Hamas assault on civilians and later writing: ‘I stand with Israel, you should too. The world cannot sit on the fence when these terrible acts of terror occur!’
The star also asked her followers to donate funds for those affected by the weekend’s attacks, which left hundreds of Israeli soldiers and civilians dead. A music festival attended was one of the first sites to be attacked by the terror group Hamas, with 260 revelers killed there.
Gadot also shared a video from U2’s Sunday show at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada, where the band dedicated their song Pride (In the Name of Love) to the hundreds of music fans who were killed and kidnapped at a music festival in Israel on Saturday is.
Actress Gal Gadot has demanded the world not ‘sit on the fence’ as she expressed support for her native country after hundreds were killed in a terror attack in Israel on Saturday.
The Wonder Woman star, 38, served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a combat trainer more than a decade ago
On Saturday, the former Miss Israel 2004 was one of the first Hollywood names to speak out in support of Israel and share news of the Hamas attack on civilians
Bono adapted the hit’s lyrics to say: ‘Sing for our brothers and sisters — what they themselves sang at the Supernova Sukkot festival in Israel… We sing for them. Our people, our kind of people, music people. Playful, experimental people. Our kind of people. We sing for them.’
During his concert, Bono added: ‘In light of what has happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about non-violence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable, but our prayers have always been for peace and for non-violence… But our hearts and our anger, you know where it points. So sing with us … and those beautiful children at that music festival.’
“Thank you U2 and Bono for supporting Israel,” Gadot wrote on her Instagram story.
Gadot served two years in the IDF, which is mandatory for Israelis, and said being in the military helped her with discipline and teamwork skills, which she now applies in filmmaking.
‘It’s not about you, you’re not number one. Right now we’re doing something for a bigger goal and when you’re filming a movie, the bigger goal is to make a great movie,’ she told Fox in August.
‘I’m not spoiled, I know how to work hard. I have a very strong work ethic and I think that has to do with that.’
The star also asked her followers to donate funds for those affected by the weekend’s attacks
All Israeli citizens are subject to a call to fight as the nation enters what experts have called the worst conflict between Israel and Palestine in decades.
As many as 300,000 Israeli reservists have already been called up to join the IDF forces.
It is not clear if the star was called up as a reserve. DailyMail.com has reached out to Gadot’s team for comment on this story.
Gadot and other stars such as Kylie Jenner, Madonna and Amy Schumer have received online abuse from pro-Palestinian social media users after expressing support for the Jewish nation. Some even demanded that the actress be boycotted.
“I unfollowed nina dobrev ian somerhalder gal gadot Thibaut courto blocked kylie jenner because I never followed her in the first place the list keeps growing and I’m here for it,” said one X user.
Another said: ‘Gal Gadot, Madonna, Mark Hamill, Amy Schumer, Natalie Portman and more disappointed, Jamie Lee Curtis all publicly support Israel. I stand with Palestine against Israel’s illegal occupation of their land.’
A third said: ‘I hate gal gadot with all my heart. Every movie or show with her in it, I don’t even watch it. It’s not that hard to boycott and ignore them!’
Meanwhile, former porn star Mia Khalifa has been vocal in her support of Hamas’ armed attack on civilians online.
The 30-year-old repeatedly supported the group’s bombings and kidnappings to her five million followers on X, encouraging the aggressors to film horizontally so she could better watch the carnage.
The Lebanese-American posted: ‘Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to turn their phones around and film horizontally.’
The Palestinian terror group stormed the Supernova festival taking place near Kibbutz Re’im, near the Gaza Strip, as part of its surprise attack launched on Saturday.
This morning, harrowing dashcam footage of the incident showed gunmen executing civilians as they lay in the sand before rifling through their pockets and emptying bags from their cars.
Bono adapted the hit’s lyrics to say: ‘Sing for our brothers and sisters – what they themselves sang at the Supernova Sukkot festival in Israel’
Gadot and other stars such as Kylie Jenner, Madonna and Amy Schumer have received online abuse from pro-Palestinian social media users
But the former porn star was unmoved by the criticism, continuing to defend Hamas’ actions as justified.
She reposted a message saying ‘the United States of America is also a terrorist state’ and went after Kylie Jenner for sharing and deleting a message in support of Israel.
“If true journalism existed, the next person to talk to Kylie Jenner would ask her opinion on geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and not break eye contact until she can string together one coherent sentence because she wants to take a stand against her 400 million followers so badly,” Khalifa wrote.
More than 700 Israeli soldiers and civilians were killed or blown up in rocket attacks launched by Palestinian gunmen on Saturday, who slaughtered some 260 innocent people at a music festival in a brutal, unexpected offensive that drew comparisons to the 9/11 attacks. hit or Pearl Harbour.
In retaliation, Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) and Air Force pounded the Gaza Strip with airstrikes and missile strikes, claiming to have hit more than 1,000 Hamas targets in the past two days.
A paramedic holds a crying little girl after she was taken from the scene of the bombing in Gaza on Monday
Now, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has said authorities will cut off electricity to the Gaza Strip and block the entry of food and fuel, declaring that his troops are ‘fighting barbarians (terrorists) and will respond accordingly’.
The measures would essentially impose siege-like conditions that would cause the millions of Palestinians living in the small, fenced-off region to starve while being attacked from the air.
The announcement came as Israeli soldiers, backed by helicopters, killed at least two gunmen who crossed the northern border into Lebanon today, in a sign of a possible new front opening as Israel’s forces continued to crack down on Hamas terrorists. to fight the south. Artillery shelling and gunfire were heard at Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, a local journalist said.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally declared war on Sunday and the army called up some 300,000 reservists, signaling greater fighting ahead with a possible ground offensive in Gaza.
Netanyahu vowed to completely destroy “the military and governing capabilities” of Hamas, which is deeply rooted in Gaza and has ruled unchallenged since 2007.