She has 88 million Instagram followers. She used them to call Gaza a "genocide." She did not back down. Pop star Dua Lipa issued one of her most widely shared statements on the Gaza war in May 2024, writing on Instagram: "Burning children alive can never be justified. The whole world is mobilising to stop the Israeli genocide. Please show your solidarity with Gaza." The post, shared with the hashtag #AllEyesOnRafah, came in response to an Israeli airstrike on a displacement camp in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that killed at least 45 Palestinians, many of them women and children. The Israeli military described the strike as a "tragic accident," saying it had used precision munitions to target two senior Hamas militants and that shrapnel had ignited a nearby fuel source. The IDF later released audio it said suggested a Hamas ammunition warehouse contributed to the blaze. Palestinian authorities and international observers, including French President Emmanuel Macron and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, condemned the strike "in the strongest terms." Lipa, 30, who is of Kosovan-Albanian descent, has been a consistent voice for a Gaza ceasefire since October 2023. She has previously signed the Artists4Ceasefire open letter and cited her family's experience fleeing the Kosovo War as shaping her views on displacement and civilian suffering.