Supermodel Bella Hadid took to Instagram to call for the protection of civilians amid escalating conflict in Iran. Sharing a carousel post, she highlighted the human cost as the region reels from days of bombardment and retaliatory strikes.
Rights groups report that over 1,000 civilians have died in the first five days of attacks, with thousands more injured as airstrikes targeted urban areas and critical infrastructure. Among the dead are 150 children, following Israeli strikes that destroyed a primary girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran.
Hadid shared a graphic from the International Committee of the Red Cross titled “Civilians must be protected,” using her caption to focus on the people caught in the crossfire of government and military decisions.
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“My heart is with the people of Iran, and with every civilian anywhere caught in the middle of government decisions and military escalation,” she wrote. “No matter where we live, safety, dignity, and peace should never be negotiable.”
The model emphasized how ordinary people often become collateral damage in decisions made by those in power.
“Too often innocent lives become collateral in decisions made far above them, by systems, by leaders, by forces that claim to act in their name,” she wrote. “But the future of Iran belongs to its people, not to those who silence them or use them as leverage.”
