Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli accuses Bella Hadid of spreading fake news with photo of 'starving Gaza child' and blasts 'Didn't you learn from your sister's mistake?' in reference to Gigi's Palestine blunder

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli has accused Bella Hadid of spreading fake news with a post showing Palestinian children.

Hadid, 27, on Monday shared an image of the children to her 60 million followers along with the caption: 'Gaza on my mind' - a reference to the continuing situation in the Palestinian territory currently under attack by Israel.

However, the clip was originally from the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria and came from a 2021 documentary directed by Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian civil war.

After social media users began pointing out the image was from Syria, Instagram added a note saying the post was missing important context and could mislead people. The note links to a web page that explains the images are from a refugee camp in Syria showing the victims of Assad's regime, not Israel.

Today, Refaeli took to her own Instagram to call out Hadid. She shared a screenshot of her fellow model's post with a red 'fake news' stamp over the top.

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli has accused Bella Hadid of spreading fake news with a post showing Palestinian children

Bella Hadid (pictured), 27, on Monday shared an image of the children to her 60 million followers along with the caption: 'Gaza on my mind.' However, the clip was originally from the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria and came from a 2021 documentary directed by Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian civil war

Today, Refaeli took to her own Instagram to call out Hadid. She shared a screenshot of her fellow model's post with a red 'fake news' stamp over the top

Instagram added a note underneath Hadid's post saying it was missing important context and could mislead people (pictured)

The misleading post remains on Hadid's Instagram days after it was published and has been liked more than one million times

'Didn't you learn from your sister's mistake?' she wrote, likely in reference to Bella's older sister Gigi Hadid's own blunder in which she claimed Israel is 'the only country in the world that keeps children as prisoners of war'.

Gigi's post accused Israel of the 'abduction, rape, humiliation, torture, murder of Palestinians' but the model - whose father is Palestinian and who last year likened Israelis to Nazis - apologised for her 'mistake', which she said was careless.

'Taking innocent people as hostages is never okay,' Hadid wrote at the time, adding: 'Hurting someone because they are Jewish is never okay.'

At the time, Refaeli hit out at Gigi in the wake of her post. She shared other posts calling out Gigi, and also shared a video of a spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces talking about the country's Iron Dome defence system and the ongoing conflict with Hamas - which was sparked by the October 7 terror attack.

Israel launched its war in Gaza after the Hamas attack that left around 1,200 people dead. Hamas militants also took roughly 250 people hostage and Israel estimates 129 remain in Gaza, including 34 who are presumed dead. 

'I think there's a lot to be mad at, but I think the anger of the world should be directed at Hamas (for its attack on Israel),' the spokesperson said in the video shared by Refaeli at the time.  

'Because Israel didn't start this war. We didn't want this war.'

'Our war is against Hamas,' the spokesperson continued, adding, 'It's not against Palestinians.' The video ends with the spokesperson urging the world to do their research and 'be on the right side of history.'

'I think she's talking to you,' Refaeli wrote along with the video, tagging Gigi.

Both Gigi Hadid and Bar Refaeli are also rumoured to have been in relationships with Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio in the past.

As of Thursday afternoon, Bella's post from Monday remains online.

The Instagram fact-check note links to a web page that explains the images are from a refugee camp in Syria showing the victims of Assad's regime, not Israel.

It reads: 'This post is misleading. This video was not filmed in Palestine. The video dates back 2013 from within the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus.'

The footage is part of a film called Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege, that shows the aftermath of Assad's siege in Yarmouk - what was then the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world, home to tens of thousands of people.

It's not the first time the Los Angeles native has shared images from Syria that are missing context.

Back in November, the millionaire posted the same images of children in Syria sharing their hopes and dreams amid war and claimed they were taken in Gaza during the ongoing conflict with Israel.

At the time, she wrote: 'Thousands of innocents Palestinian men women and CHILDREN imprisoned without trial.'

Syrian-Americans have been quick to call out the model over the misleading posts on the war.

'This is not the first time she's done this with these SAME IMAGES of children from Yarmouk,' wrote American Enterprise Institute media strategist Kareem Rifai.

Bella was pictured attending a pro-Palestine rally in New York City in May of 2021

Back in November, the millionaire posted the same images of children in Syria sharing their hopes and dreams amid war and claimed they were taken in Gaza

Hadid's older sister Gigi apologized last November after claiming Israel 'is the only country in the world' keeping children as prisoners of war 

'Completely unacceptable and irresponsible for a mega-celebrity with massive reach. Syrians are still being killed by Assad every day.'

Just two days ago, Hadid's father, real estate mogul Mohamed Hadid was forced to apologise for a slew of hateful messages he sent to US Congressman Ritchie Torres.

A report by the New York Post detailed how Hadid has spent the past few months targeting Torres online for the congressman's support for Israel following the October 7 Hamas attacks.

In texts to Torres, Hadid branded him 'worse than the rats of the New York sewage system'.

Torres, who is gay, was also told by the model's father that he 'might get a job as a bouncer in a gay bar', and that he should 'dress as KKK to hide that ugly grey coloured face of yours.'

In the face of backlash to the messages being published, Hadid issued an apology for his language, but took the opportunity to throw a few more insults Torres' way.

He said that Torres is a 'shill' for Israel, 'a state that not only 'mistreats black and brown people but pinkwashes their atrocities using their projected gay rights as a shield for their human rights violations.'

'My feeling after 76 years of being a refugee from the country where I and my ancestors were born and watching a genocide unfold are at an all time high,' he continued.

'I am watching United States politicians work as AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] messengers of genocide.

Just two days ago, Hadid's father, real estate mogul Mohamed Hadid was forced to apologize for a slew of hateful messages he sent to New York Congressman Ritchie Torres

Mohamed has also compared the method of the Nazi gas chambers to the bombing of Gaza, and Auschwitz to the Gaza Strip

Bella and Gigi Hadid join in the protest against President Trump's immigration ban on the streets of NYC in January, 2017

'I used the wrong words to express this anger but the anger is warranted. To send black and brown and other marginalised communities to do the dirty work of two countries who have never respected them is wrong.

'I apologise to my community for directing the conversation to this. And even for a minute away from Palestine. All eyes on Palestine. Free Palestine.'

Torres, who made history when in 2021 he was the first openly gay African American and openly gay Hispanic member of Congress, said he felt 'dehumanised' by the messages from Hadid. 

Mohamed has also compared the method of the Nazi gas chambers to the bombing of Gaza, and Auschwitz to the Gaza Strip.