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Kylie Jenner posted and then deleted an Instagram story showing her support for Israel on Saturday – after backlash from some of her fans.
The influencer, 26, posted on her social media an image of the Israeli flag with the caption: “Now and always we stand with the people of Israel!”
The image she reshared was from the nonprofit StandWithUs – an organization that claims to support Israel and combat anti-Semitism.
On Twitter, a video that appeared to comment on Jenner’s post showed numerous users replying that they supported a free Palestine.
Israel launched retaliatory strikes against Hamas after the militant group launched a series of attacks on Saturday, the biggest escalation in the region in decades.
Changed my mind: Kylie Jenner posted and deleted an Instagram story on Saturday showing her support for Israel
Opinion: The influencer, 26, posted on her social media an image of the Israeli flag with the caption: “Now and always we stand with the people of Israel!”
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 313 people and injured nearly 2,000, according to Palestinian officials.
In Israel, 300 civilians have also been killed and dozens of Israelis have been taken hostage.
Under Kylie’s recent post – in which she shared photos from Paris Fashion Week – many made their feelings clear by posting the flag of Palestine.
Other written comments such as: ‘Liberate Palestine’.
Israel has launched a counterattack against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip in the south and bombarded Lebanon with artillery in the north, after an unprecedented sneak attack that killed at least 300 Israelis.
As the sun rose on Sunday after Israel’s deadliest day of violence in 50 years, the Jewish nation’s warplanes bombarded the densely populated Gaza city with bombs in retaliatory strikes.
Heavy smoke and flames could be seen rising from Gaza’s Burc Vatan shopping center after the Palestine Tower in the Al-Rimal district, one of the tallest buildings in the strip, was reduced to rubble.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) released images of a rocket attack it said took place on a compound belonging to Hamas’ military intelligence chief, adding that it also targeted the terrorist organization’s two banks and air weapons production sites in Gaza attacked.
Response: Under Kylie’s recent post – when she shared photos from Paris Fashion Week – many made their feelings clear by posting the flag of Palestine
Cause: The image she reshared was from the nonprofit StandWithUs – an organization that claims to support Israel and oppose anti-Semitism
Horror: People estimate the destruction caused by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on Saturday. Israel has launched a counterattack against Hamas militants after a sneak attack that killed hundreds of people
Drone footage, captured and released by the military branch over the past 24 hours, also shows a group of Hamas fighters being attacked from the air as they try to enter Israeli territory.
Meanwhile, in the north of the country, IDF forces carried out artillery attacks on Lebanon in the disputed area of Mount Dov, following mortar fire directed at Israel from its northern neighbor.
Iran-backed Hezbollah militants said it was behind the attacks and that the attack was carried out “in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance,” the BBC reported.
Columns of heavy weaponry, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, were also spotted moving north towards Israel’s borders with Lebanon and Syria.
“We are entering a long and difficult war forced on us by a murderous Hamas attack,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Sunday, adding that the “offensive phase” of the IDF response has begun.
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said more than 400 Palestinian militants had been killed in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip, and dozens of others had been captured.
“As of this hour, troops are fighting in (Kibbutz) Kfar Aza, and searches are underway in a large number of towns. There are IDF forces in all cities, there is no city where IDF forces are not present,” he is quoted in The Times of Israel.
Israel’s ambassador to Britain, Tzipi Hotovely, has accused Iran of supporting Hamas ahead of Saturday’s attack.
She told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips on Sky News: ‘Iran supports Hamas, Iran destabilizes the region with its allies.
“We are willing to take a long fight to defend our people, we must ensure that no one has the motivation to do that again.”
More than 300 Israelis have been killed and 1,590 injured since Hamas launched its blitz on Saturday morning with rockets and up to 1,000 armed militants roaming in gangs, attacking both civilians and soldiers in dozens of locations.
At least 26 Israeli soldiers have been killed in an attack by the militant Hamas group on the south of the country, the Israeli army confirmed.
And since yesterday, at least 313 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 2,000 injured in Israeli army retaliation, the country’s Health Ministry said.
As of Sunday morning, Israel was still fighting Hamas raids in eight places, the Israeli army said.
“Israel is waking up to a terrible morning this morning,” said Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, an Israeli military spokesman. “A lot of people died… children, grandmothers, families, bodies.”
Hamas fighters began their attack at dawn Saturday with a massive barrage of rockets into southern Israel, providing cover for an unprecedented, multi-pronged infiltration of fighters into Israel from Gaza.
Hamas fighters killed hundreds of Israelis in clashes throughout the day and fled back to Gaza with at least dozens of hostages, including women, children and disabled elderly Israelis.
An Israeli military spokesman said Sunday morning that two hostage situations had been “resolved,” but did not say whether those hostages were rescued alive.
Conflict: Hamas claimed to have fired 5,000 rockets into Israel from the occupied Gaza Strip, setting off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
Scared: People standing on a roof watch as a ball of fire and smoke rises over a building in Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike that hit the Palestine Tower building on Saturday
An official figure of how many people have been kidnapped is currently unknown, but the Israeli embassy in the United States suggests a figure of 100 civilians and soldiers.
The military branch announced early Sunday morning in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that it had ordered a rocket attack on a compound of Hamas’s intelligence chief, along with a video of an alleged attack.
It read: “A short time ago, IAF fighter jets struck a complex of the head of the intelligence wing of the terrorist organization Hamas.
“The IAF continues to attack terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip.”