Angelina Jolie deplores Gaza bombing; Israeli President slams her remarks

Israeli President Isaac Herzog, in an interview with Piers Morgan, slammed Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie for her recent remarks on the war in Gaza.

Herzog said that Jolie has not visited Gaza and that she was not offering the Israelis any ability to defend themselves by her remarks.

He said, “I totally reject her claims. I think she’s never been in Gaza, to visit and see the facts on the ground. In Gaza now there is war, but there is no humanitarian crisis that does not enable them to survive.”

He continued, “Gaza is a jail not because of Israel. Israel pulled out of Gaza. It is an Iranian base filled with terror. Perhaps the outcome of this war will enable the Gazan people who deserve a decent good life to enjoy it under a different regime that will enable movement towards peace.”

Angelina Jolie in a social media post referred to her experience working with the UN to help refugees and said her focus was on the people displaced by violence in any context.

She said, "What happened in Israel is an act of terror. But that cannot justify the innocent lives lost in bombing a civilian population in Gaza that has nowhere to go, no access to food or water, no possibility of evacuation, and not even the basic human right to cross a border to seek refuge. Gaza is fast becoming a mass grave as a result of Israel's airstrikes and the world watches as millions of Palestinian civilians - children, women, and families - are being collectively punished."