Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley wrote “Finish them off” on an Israeli shell during a trip to northern Israel, near the Lebanese border, according to a photo published Tuesday on X by an Israeli MP.
MP Danny Danon, former ambassador to the UN, accompanied Nikki Haley, also former ambassador to the United Nations, during this trip near the northern border with Lebanon.
“‘Finish them off,’ that’s what my friend the former ambassador wrote,” Danny Danon said in the caption of the photo showing the former Republican candidate kneeling in front of a shell, a marker in hand and writing about the missile. Also written on the shell are the words “America loves Israel.”
Mr. Haley did not specify who the word “them” referred to, but Mr. Danon indirectly suggested Lebanese Hezbollah.
“Israel must take the initiative and change the situation. The inhabitants of Tire and Sidon (Lebanese cities) will evacuate their homes, and the inhabitants of the north (of Israel) will return home,” Mr. Danon wrote, referring to Israelis living near the border and displaced by trade. almost daily shootings with Lebanese Hezbollah.
The publication of this photo nevertheless comes as a Sunday bombing by the Israeli army on a displaced persons camp in Rafah left 45 dead and sparked a global wave of indignation.
Particularly in the United States, where criticism is increasing over the policies of President Joe Biden, who has offered Israel almost unconditional support, while occasionally criticizing the way in which the Israeli army carries out its operations in Gaza.
The White House said it still did not see a “major ground operation” against Rafah in southern Gaza and therefore there would be “no change in US policy” of support for Israel. .
The Israeli army vowed to annihilate Hamas and launched an offensive that left at least 36,096 dead, mostly civilians, according to data from the Hamas administration’s Health Ministry, in response to the attack. in October commandos of the Palestinian Islamist movement infiltrated from the Gaza Strip, leading to the death of more than 1,189 people, mainly civilians, according to a new count carried out on Tuesday by AFP based on the latest official figures available.
Nikki Haley, 52, left the race for the White House in March after a clear defeat against Donald Trump in the Republican primaries. Despite her sometimes harsh criticism of the billionaire, she declared last week that she would vote in November for the former president.