Haley and representatives from her defunct presidential marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from The Washington Submit.
In an interview with the Israel Hayom newspaper, which is run by Republican mega donor Miriam Adelson, Haley echoed her message on the bomb.
“We all know so long as Hamas exits, it may possibly occur once more, and that’s why I’ve stated from the very starting, that you must end them — as soon as and for all,” she stated. Haley spoke with the newspaper Monday after visiting Nir Oz, the place greater than one-quarter of residents have been both killed or kidnapped on Oct. 7.
Haley’s go to comes as Israeli leaders face intensifying criticism that they’re not doing sufficient to guard civilians in Gaza and might have dedicated battle crimes through the nation’s battle towards Hamas. It additionally follows a current Israeli airstrike that began a hearth in a camp for displaced Palestinians. Weapons specialists stated U.S.-made bombs have been used within the strike.
On Tuesday, Danny Danon, a member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and the nation’s former consultant to the United Nations, posted photographs to X displaying him accompanying Haley to the artillery station. The photographs present Haley writing the “End Them!” message, adopted by: “America [heart] Israel. All the time, Nikki Haley.”
Criticism rapidly adopted.
On Wednesday, Amnesty Worldwide USA shared the pictures with a message about how battle zones are “no place for stunts.” And the Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned her for writing “a violent message” two days after an Israeli airstrike on a tent camp in Rafah killed no less than 45 folks. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to as the assault a “tragic accident” after the Israeli navy repeatedly described it as a focused strike on a Hamas compound utilizing “exact munitions” and “exact intelligence.”
Haley has been a staunch supporter of Israel for years. In October, when she was nonetheless pursuing the Republican presidential nomination, she spoke at the Republican Jewish Coalition summit, the place she stated she would by no means criticize Israel’s prime minister “in the midst of tragedy and battle.”
Final week, she chastised the Biden administration’s determination to withhold weapons from Israel, saying that doing so “validates the completely false and harmful narrative that Israel is appearing unjustly by defending herself,” including that she thinks Israel “is conducting its battle of self-defense extra humanely than any military in historical past.”
Throughout a 2017 go to to Israel as U.N. ambassador through the Trump administration, Haley instructed Netanyahu that the United Nations bullies Israel. Her remark got here a day after she stated that the US may withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council until it modified its methods generally and its detrimental stance on Israel specifically, The Submit reported on the time.
And in 2018, Haley defended Israel throughout an emergency assembly of the U.N. Safety Council as Israel confronted harsh criticism from all over the world for capturing Palestinians who have been protesting on the Gaza border throughout clashes that killed no less than 60.
“I ask my colleagues right here within the Safety Council: Who amongst us would settle for any such exercise in your border?” Haley stated on the time. “Nobody would. No nation on this chamber would act with extra restraint than Israel has.”
Haley continued her protection of Israel throughout her newest go to.
“When Hamas guarantees they’ll do it once more, Israel ought to consider them,” she wrote Wednesday on X. “Israel should do no matter is important to guard her folks from evil. Individuals should keep in mind that when Iran and Hamas chant ‘Demise to Israel’ in addition they promise ‘Demise to America’. Israel is combating America’s enemies.”
Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff contributed to this report.
