Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley left a message of encouragement for the Israel Defense Forces on the rocket during a visit to the Israel-Gaza border on Monday.
“Beat it, America! [loves] “Israel has always,” the former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor wrote on a 155mm high explosive round.
A photo of Haley signing the ammunition was shared on social media on Tuesday by Danny Danon, a Knesset member from the Likud Party who accompanied Haley on the visit.
“This is what my friend and former ambassador Nikki Haley wrote on a shell today during her visit to an artillery base on our northern border.” Danone says:.
Stand for America PAC, the political action committee that backed Haley’s 2024 presidential campaign, Point out that The rockets are “intended for Hamas.”
Haley, 52, during her Memorial Day weekend visit, consoled Israelis affected by the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the terror group and assured them that the United States remains committed to supporting the Jewish state.
The former White House candidate said Tuesday she met with one of the survivors of the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival, where hundreds of attendees were killed and some kidnapped.
“Like my daughter, Tali Binah is a nurse in her 20s who loves music and friends,” Haley wrote in X. “But Nova Music Festival changed her life forever.”
“She hid for hours, praying that she would not be next, listening to her concert-goers begging for mercy as Hamas raped, mutilated and shot her dead,” she added. “After she escaped, she tried to treat the victims who had been massacred and left to die slowly.”
“Now she is bravely sharing her story and standing as a witness to the hundreds of others who have been raped, tortured, kidnapped and murdered simply because they are Israeli.”
International pressure on Israel is growing as Israeli forces move forward with plans to invade Rafah, one of Hamas’ last remaining strongholds in the Gaza Strip and home to more than one million civilians refugees from the war.
An Israeli airstrike in Rafah on Sunday killed at least 45 people, including those who had taken shelter in a tent camp.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called the civilian casualties a “tragic mistake” and confirmed the attack was under investigation.
Haley, who dropped out of the Republican primary in March, declared last week that she would vote for former President Donald Trump on November 5.
Trump, 77, later said he believed Haley would be “joining our team in some capacity.”
