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- Nikki Haley wrote "finish them" on an artillery shell during a visit to Israel, a photo shows.
- A picture shared by Danny Danon shows Haley signing the shell over Memorial Day weekend.
- Haley also criticized Joe Biden for temporarily cutting off weapons to Israel, per The Guardian.
Nikki Haley wrote "finish them" on an Israeli artillery shell during a recent visit to Israel.
Danny Danon, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, shared a post on X on Tuesday featuring four photos of Haley and him during her visit to Israel over Memorial Day weekend, including one of her kneeling and writing on an artillery shell.
"Finish them! This is what my friend, the former ambassador, Nikki Haley, wrote today on a shell during a visit to an artillery outpost at the northern border," Danon said.
Haley was the US ambassador to the UN under the Trump administration between 2017 and 2018, which overlapped with Danon's time as Israel's permanent representative to the UN.
She was touring parts of Israel, including Nir Oz, where Hamas militants killed one in four people during the terrorist attacks of October 7.
"What happened on October 7 is pure evil and can never be forgotten," she said, per the Jewish News Syndicate.
At least 1,189 people were killed during Hamas' attacks, and 252 were taken hostage.
Israel launched offensives against Gaza in the aftermath of those attacks. Those offensives had killed at least 35,000 Palestinians as of May 20, according to figures from the Hamas-run health ministry, shared by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
During her trip, Haley also criticized President Joe Biden for his momentarily withholding aid to Israel.
"The sure way to not help Israel is to withhold weapons," she said, per The Guardian, adding: "America needs to do whatever Israel needs and stop telling them how to fight this war."
In an interview with CNN earlier this month, Biden said he would cut off Israel from offensive weapons if it went ahead with an assault on Rafah.
But on Tuesday, the White House said the assault hadn't violated Biden's warnings against launching a large-scale assault targeting population centers.
Haley dropped out of the US presidential race in March.