Gigi Hadid condemns 'terrorizing of innocent people' in Instagram post following Hamas attacks on Israel

• Gigi Hadid condemned the "terrorizing of innocent people" following Hamas' attacks on Israel.

• The model said that her pro-Palestinian stance does not "include the harm of a Jewish person."

• Her father also condemned killing civilians but directly blamed the escalation on Israel's government.

Model Gigi Hadid spoke out to condemn the "terrorizing of innocent people" following Hamas' massive attacks on Israel and the latter's declaration of war over the weekend.

"While I have hopes and dreams for Palestinians, none of them include the harm of a Jewish person," she wrote in a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday.

"I have deep empathy and heartbreak for the Palestinian struggle and life under occupation," she added.

Official tallies of the death toll since Hamas' stunning surprise attack has reached 1,200 Israelis and, as of Tuesday, 900 Gazans, CBS News reported. Many hundreds of civilians are among those figures.

Both Gigi Hadid and her sister, model Bella Hadid, have made posts supporting the cause of Palestinian liberation in the past.

Their father, Palestinian-American real estate developer Mohamed Hadid has also posted about being made a refugee as a baby in 1948 following the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli war, according to screenshots shared by Mondoweiss.

Mohamed Hadid reshared his daughter's statement soon after she posted it, shortly after posting his own, more impassioned rhetoric.

On Monday, he wrote a post blaming the "massive escalation between the occupied and the occupier" on Israel's "far-right government."

In a follow-up post on Tuesday condemning the killing of civilians, women, and children, he wrote: "There is boiling point … I don't know nor do I care for Hamas as much that I don't know nor do I care where these [settlers] come from. But they are not angels."

In the months before Hamas' attacks over the weekend, both sisters have been credited, along with other celebrities, with helping usher in a time of increasing sympathy on the US left to the cause of Palestinian liberation, as Insider's Isobel van Hagen reported.

Gigi Hadid's Instagram post also said: "The terrorizing of innocent people is not in alignment with & does not do any good for the 'Free Palestine' movement."

Bella Hadid does not appear to have posted on Instagram since the attacks, though as of Wednesday a stream of recent comments to her last post in July suggests her followers are hungry for a statement.

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