Over the weekend, Israeli citizens experienced shock upon viewing documentation of hostage Evyatar David, who has remained abandoned in Gaza captivity after 667 days. The disturbing images of David, extracted from Hamas-published videos, reached international newspaper headlines, prompting British singer Jessie J to respond with evident horror to the atrocity.
The celebrity shared multiple social media posts. She wrote, among other statements, "This is heartbreaking, I just simply cannot handle the evil in this world. Please God, make this suffering end."
Jessie J's appeal, delivered by the partner and mother of basketball player Danny Hannan Coleman's son, who is of Israeli origin, reached headlines almost simultaneously with an entirely different series of stories shared by Oscar-winning actress and Israeli-born Natalie Portman, who distributed pro-Palestinian content as she has repeatedly done previously while encouraging Gaza fundraising, generating waves of furious condemnation from Israelis and Jews globally.
This represents not the first occasion Jessie J has addressed the Israel-Hamas war and expressed opinions concerning both sides, Israelis and Palestinians. During May 2025, she chose to reference the widely discussed Rafah incident and wrote, "I can't stand this. I hate the world sometimes, these poor babies."
Subsequently, she attempted to clarify her position and added, "To say you don't agree with the killing, pain, and suffering of any human being in the world doesn't mean you support any side or negate pain that another country or other people feel and experience. You can stand with Palestinians and also with Israelis and Jews who are suffering.
"No innocent people, under any circumstances, deserve this. I don't understand how people can still argue about this. No one deserves to die like this. I stand with those who suffer everywhere. We are human beings, and we react to what we see, and what we see is beyond the boundary of human understanding. My heart bleeds."
