On June 2nd, actor Michael Douglas showed his support for an Israeli kibbutz that took a heavy blow in the October 7 Hamas terror strike that initiated Israel’s conflict with the Islamic terrorist organization.
A continuing Israeli military onslaught against Hamas in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, when the organization carried out an unexpected assault into southern Israel, murdering more than 1,200 people and taking hostages.
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin established the terrorist organization Hamas in 1987 as a breakaway faction of the Muslim Brotherhood within the First Intifada, which was a resistance movement against Israeli rule.
Israel, the United States, and the European Union have all designated it as a terrorist organization due to the group’s history of violence, which includes suicide bombers, rocket strikes, and other atrocities against Israeli citizens and military objectives. Following Hamas’s 2006 victory in Palestinian elections and subsequent armed takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007, the region was subsequently blocked by Israel and Egypt.
Douglas visited the houses that were destroyed in the assault on October 7 and talked with residents of Kibbutz Be’eri. Roughly 100 people were slain, and 30 others were held captive in Be’eri, making it one of the worst impacted localities.
After visiting the site of a music festival where more than 300 people were murdered, Douglas claimed to have talked with the relatives of the captives. In a show of sympathy for the hundreds of hostages still held captive by Hamas, the actor was given a necklace with an Israeli dog tag and a little pin of a yellow ribbon during his meeting with President Isaac Herzog.
Douglas hoped the captives would be freed quickly and remarked that he could feel the profound shock caused by the event.
Douglas also attacked pro-Palestinian demonstrators on American college campuses, asserting that a number of them had been brainwashed.
Douglas also attacked pro-Palestinian demonstrators on American college campuses, asserting that a number of them had been brainwashed. They can’t learn anything. Their understanding is limited.
Since October 7, Douglas has joined a long list of American politicians and celebrities who traveled to Israel and explored the southern region close to the Gaza border.
