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Posted: 2023-10-27T13:18:49Z | Updated: 2023-10-27T13:18:49Z

Supermodel Bella Hadid has addressed the conflict in the Middle East, condemning the Hamas attack on Israel and outlining the plight and suffering of innocent Palestinians.

Forgive me for my silence, Hadid wrote on Instagram Thursday . I have yet to find the ideal words for this deeply intricate and horrific past 2 weeks, weeks that have turned the worlds attention back towards a situation that has been taking innocent lives and affecting families for decades.

Hadids father, Mohamed Hadid, fled the region with his family as a baby during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Bella Hadid and her sister, model Gigi Hadid, have embraced their heritage and advocated for the Palestinian cause.

Gigi Hadid issued a statement earlier this month condemning the violence and shared a post in support of Palestinians, prompting retaliation from the state of Israels Instagram account. Afterward, the entire Hadid family faced a slew of violent threats, TMZ previously reported .

In her post, Bella Hadid said her phone number was leaked and she had received hundreds of death threats every day. My family has felt to be in danger, she wrote. But I can not be silenced any longer.

My heart is bleeding with pain from the trauma I am seeing unfold, as well as the generational trauma of my Palestinian blood, Hadid wrote. Seeing the aftermath from the airstrikes in Gaza, I mourn with all the mothers who have lost children and the children who cry alone, all the lost fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, friends that will never again walk this earth.

She said she mourned, too, for the Israeli families suffering in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas militants, who killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and took more than 200 hostages, according to the government.

Regardless of the history of the land, I condemn the terrorist attacks on any civilians, anywhere, Hadid wrote. Harming women and children and inflicting terror does not and should not do any good for the Free Palestine movement.