Videos showed fights between protesters outside the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, where actress Gal Gadot organized a screening of footage of Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack during the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel.
The 47-minute footage, provided by the Israeli Defense Forces, was broadcast last night in Los Angeles and New York to a select audience of celebrities and influential figures.
According to the LA Times, about 200 people attended the screening, but Gadot and major Hollywood stars were not in attendance. This could be due to the SAG-AFTRA strike that just ended yesterday.
In videos shared on social media, people with Israeli flags can be seen fighting with pro-Palestinian protesters in the middle of the street, with people punching and kicking each other.
Long before the clashes, the police had been sent to the area outside the museum for security reasons and ended up having to spray several people with pepper spray.
It was not clear if anyone was taken into custody because of the fighting, ABC7 reported. An LAPD spokesperson told that no arrests had been confirmed as of late Wednesday evening.
Several videos showed fights between protesters outside the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, where actress Gal Gadot organized a screening of footage of Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack during the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel
Opened in 1993, the Museum of Tolerance aims to examine the history of prejudice around the world, with a strong focus on the Holocaust.
Oscar-winning director Guy Nattiv, who led the initiative, confirmed to i24 that Gadot and her husband Yaron Varsano “helped make this possible.”
The video serves as a damning document of the atrocities carried out by Hamas terrorists on Israeli communities along the Gaza border on October 7. 1,400 people were killed and 240 hostages were kidnapped.
Nattiv, a self-described humanist who advocates for a two-state solution, pointed to the Holocaust to highlight his cause.
“As a filmmaker, I swore that these images from October 7th will not be forgotten and the world will see them.” Because now the denial begins – it is a fake, it is not a fake (…) We cannot pass by in silence,” he said to i24.
The plan was to host a single screening for 120 spectators, with possible additional screenings depending on response, the outlet reported.
The video content is said to be deeply disturbing and has already been viewed by numerous foreign journalists and Israeli Knesset members.
According to The Wrap, the footage was broadcast in Los Angeles and New York under the title “Bearing Witness to the 7th October Massacre.”
LAPD officers clash between supporters of Israel and supporters of Palestine outside the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles on Wednesday
Some videos appear to show people carrying Israeli flags being forced to fight in the middle of the street, with people punching and kicking each other while several vehicles are stopped at an intersection
Supporters of Israel wave Israeli flags at drivers passing the checkpoint
About 200 people attended the screening, but Gadot was not present, nor were any major Hollywood stars
Long before the clashes, the police had been sent to the area outside the museum for security reasons and ended up having to spray several people with pepper spray
People fought with each other after a brawl broke out between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters
Clashes between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Some Israelis were pepper-sprayed quite heavily. pic.twitter.com/lbw6FFOO3S
— David Shalom (@DavidShalom123) November 9, 2023
Gal Gadot planned the Hollywood screening to show footage of Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack during the October 7 invasion of Israel
Noa Argamani was kidnapped by Hamas militants after being abused and driven through the desert on a motorcycle
Dashcam footage showed Gazan militants attacking a nighttime music festival in southern Israel shooting revelers at close range and then looting their belongings
The footage, most of which was filmed by Hamas terrorists, reportedly includes murders, mass rapes and beheadings of Jews, as well as the Nova music festival massacre.
Some Knesset members were so overwhelmed by the content of the video that they left the screening mid-view.
The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League helped organize the screenings.
Nattiv shared an edited image of the invitation on social media on Sunday with the caption, “Because the world needs to know. #neveragainisnow.”
Gadot has not publicly commented on the screening.
But the actress has been particularly vocal about the Middle East war in recent weeks.
Two days after the first attacks, she urged the world not to “sit on the fence.”
Gadot served as a combat trainer in the Israel Defense Forces more than a decade ago, leading some to question whether she could even be called to combat.
Oscar-winning director Guy Nattiv, who led the initiative, confirmed to i24 that Gadot and her husband Yaron Varsano “helped make this possible.”
The 38-year-old Wonder Woman star famously served as a combat trainer in the Israel Defense Forces over a decade ago
Children’s toys and personal belongings lie on the blood-stained floor of a child’s bedroom after armed Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip fatally infiltrated Kibbutz Be’eri
The aftermath of an attack by Palestinian militants on the Supernova music festival
Shortly after the first attack, the former Miss Israel 2004 was one of the first Hollywood celebrities to support Israel, writing: “I stand with Israel, you should too.” The world cannot stand idly by while these terrible terrorist attacks occur !’
The star also urged her followers to donate money to the victims of the attacks.
In the barbaric October 7 attacks, Hamas fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza and sent militants across the border, killing 1,400 people and taking around 240 hostage.
More than 270 bodies, mostly young people, were scattered across the site of a music festival at a kibbutz in the Negev Desert after Hamas attackers crossed the border on paragliders and fired indiscriminately into the crowd.
At a nearby kibbutz in southern Israel, Hamas terrorists massacred at least 40 babies and toddlers before beheading some of them and shooting their families.
In the attack, around 70 Hamas fighters armed with machine guns and grenades stormed the otherwise quiet Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel and indiscriminately killed men, women and children.
The terrorists went on a rampage, killing hundreds of Israelis and taking dozens hostage in places like Kfar Aza, near Sderot. Some of the houses had been almost completely destroyed in the attack and the walls had collapsed and burned down.
The death toll dwarfs the scale of all previous Islamist attacks except 9/11. Scores of Israelis were taken to Gaza as hostages, and some were paraded through the streets.