WASHINGTON: Former US presidential candidate Nikki Haley was photographed writing the phrase “Exterminate them” on an Israeli shell while visiting sites near the northern border with Lebanon.
The photo was published on the X website on Tuesday by Israeli member of the Knesset and former UN ambassador Danny Danon, who accompanied Haley on her trip.
“‘Exterminate them,'” Danon said in his post. It was written by my friend, former ambassador Nikki Haley, and shows Haley kneeling and writing on a shell with a purple marker.
Haley was a hardline UN envoy under Donald Trump, and her tenure overlapped with Danon’s.
The Gaza war erupted after Hamas launched an attack on southern Israel on October 7 that killed 1,189 people, most of them civilians, according to a count prepared by Agence France-Presse based on the latest Israeli official figures.
The militants also took 252 hostages, 121 of them in Gaza itself, 37 of whom were killed, according to the military.
The Israeli retaliatory strikes have killed at least 36,096 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to the Strip’s health ministry.
Haley, 52, abandoned her bid for the White House in March after suffering a landslide defeat to Trump in the Republican primary and said last week that she would not seek reelection. will vote for him.
Trump has ruled her out of the vice presidential race, but she is a potential presidential candidate in 2028.
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