Washington
\nNikki Haley wrote \u201cfinish them!\u201d on the side of an IDF artillery shell during a visit to Israel.
\nMs Haley, who was Donald Trump\u2019s last-standing rival in the contest to be this year\u2019s Republican presidential nominee, visited several places alongside Danny Danon, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party in the Knesset, Israel\u2019s parliament.
\nMr Danon tweeted a collage of four pictures of himself and Ms Haley, including one of her crouching down to write on an Israeli Defence Force artillery shell.
\nHis post began with \u201cFinish them!\u201d in English. He then added in Hebrew: \u201cThis is what my friend, the former ambassador, Nikki Haley wrote today about a shell during a visit to an artillery post on the northern border.\u201d
\nClose-up pictures of Ms Haley\u2019s message show she added: \u201cAmerica [heart] Israel. Always, Nikki Haley.\u201d
\nMs Haley was touring Israel\u2019s northern border with Lebanon, according to the Associated Press.
\nShe served as Mr Trump\u2019s US ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to late 2018 and has been a strong supporter of Israel.
\nHer visit came days after Israeli strikes hit the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians fled after being told it was a \u201csafe zone\u201d by Israel.
\nOn Sunday, an IDF strike hit an area housing displaced Palestinians and killed at least 45 people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.
\nFootage verified by Sky News showed numerous bodies being pulled from the wreckage of buildings. In one video, a man can be seen carrying the body of a decapitated child.
\nThe strike was carried out using a type of bomb supplied by the US, Sky News analysis found.
\nAs Israel faced condemnation, Mr Netanyahu labelled the initial strike a \u201ctragic mistake\u201d and the Israeli military suggested the fires seen on Sunday may have been caused by secondary explosions, possibly from a Hamas munitions dump.
\nThere have been other strikes on Rafah since, according to witnesses, first responders and hospital officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington Nikki Haley wrote \u201cfinish them!\u201d on the side of an IDF artillery shell during a visit to Israel. Ms Haley, who was Donald Trump\u2019s last-standing rival in the contest to be this year\u2019s Republican presidential nominee, visited several places alongside Danny Danon, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party in the Knesset, Israel\u2019s parliament. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-409850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n