Former US Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Tuesday visited Israel's northern border with Lebanon and the site of the Hamas attack on October 7.
While visiting the border, the 52-year-old former US ambassador to the United Nations wrote a “disgusting” message about an Israeli artillery shell intended to be launched into Gaza.
He signed his name beneath a message that read: “End them. America always loves Israel.”
Haley's visit was organized by a right-wing member of the Israeli Parliament, Danny Danon.
“This is what my friend, the former [UN] “Ambassador Nikki Haley wrote on a shell today during a visit to an artillery post on the northern border,” Danon wrote in X.
In her own post, Haley said the missile she signed was intended for Hamas, but the photos and message sparked a furor on social media.
“Simply disgusting,” Alon-Lee Green, founder of Standing Together, a left-wing Israeli group, wrote on X.
His visit followed brutal Israeli airstrikes on a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah over the weekend, which killed around 45 people, most of whom were women and children.
The attack sparked a global outcry and people, including influencers, politicians and celebrities, called on Israel to immediately stop operations in the area.
US officials called the images coming out of Rafah “horrible” and “heartbreaking” but stopped short of condemning Israel's operations despite growing pressure on US President Joe Biden to curb Israel's operations in Gaza.
More than 36,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 7, when 1,200 people were killed in Hamas' attack on Israel.
