Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley left some words of encouragement for the Israeli Defense Forces on a rocket shell on Monday during a visit to the Israel-Gaza border.
“Finish them! America [loves] Israel always,” the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor wrote on the 155 mm high explosive projectile.
The image of Haley signing the munition was shared on social media Tuesday by Danny Danon, a Likud member of the Knesset, who accompanied Haley on her trip.
“This is what my friend, the former ambassador, Nikki Haley wrote today on a shell during a visit to an artillery post on the northern border,” Dannon said.
Stand for America PAC, the political action committee that backed Haley’s 2024 presidential campaign, noted that the rocket shell is “intended for Hamas.”
Haley, 52, consoled Israeli citizens impacted by terror group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack and assured them that the US remains committed to supporting the Jewish State during her Memorial Day weekend visit.
The former White House hopeful said Tuesday that she met with one of the survivors of the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed and some kidnapped.
“Like my daughter, Tali Biner is a nurse in her 20s who loves music and her friends,” Haley wrote on X. “But, her life changed forever at the Nova Music Festival.”
“For hours she hid, praying not to be next, listening to fellow concert goers beg for mercy as they were raped, genitally mutilated, and shot to death by Hamas,” she added. “When she escaped, she tried to treat victims who were butchered and left to slowly die.”
“Now, she bravely tells her story to bear witness for the hundreds who can’t — raped, tortured, kidnapped, and murdered simply for being Israeli.”
International pressure against Israel has been mounting as its military moves forward with a planned invasion of Rafah, one of the last remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza and the site of over a million civilian war refugees.
On Sunday, an Israeli airstrike in Rafah resulted in the deaths of at least 45 people – including some sheltering in a tent camp.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called the civilian casualties a “tragic mistake,” and confirmed that the strike is under investigation.
Haley, who dropped out of the GOP primary race in March, declared last week that she would vote for former President Donald Trump on Nov. 5.
Trump, 77, later said he believes Haley will be “on our team in some form.”