Mass brawl outside Gal Gadot’s Hamas attack screening

A Los Angeles screening Gal Gadot helped facilitate of a film showing the October 7 surprise attack on southern Israel by Hamas militants was marred by a mass brawl outside the venue on Wednesday night.

Video footage shared by Los Angeles’ KABC-TV shows at least two groups clashing outside the city’s Museum of Tolerance on Pico Boulevard.

Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department arrived at the scene as punches were exchanged and pepper-sprayed was used.

The film covers Hamas’ surprise attack, which was the deadliest-ever Palestinian militant attack on Israel, which subsequently launched its heaviest-ever airstrikes on Gaza. According to Israeli officials, 1,400 people in Israel have been killed as of Tuesday, the Associated Press reported, while more than 10,300 Palestinians have been killed, according to officials from the health ministry in Gaza, the AP said.

Throughout the ongoing conflict, Israeli-born Wonder Woman star Gadot has frequently shared social media posts supporting the people of Israel. In particular, she has shone a spotlight on many of the more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas.

To illuminate the conflict, Gadot helped to organize a screening of a 47-minute video provided by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson, which was marred by the disturbance on Wednesday evening.

Oscar-winning director Guy Nattiv, who reportedly spearheaded efforts to bring the film to the United States—with a screening planned for a group of select celebrities and public figures—recently revealed, per Israeli-based i24NEWS: “Gal Gadot and her husband, Yaron Varsano, helped make this possible.”

Newsweek has contacted representatives of Gadot and the LAPD via email for comment.

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