Since October 2023, the ∂єαтн toll in the Gaza Strip has reportedly exceeded 43,061 people, including 16,765 children, according to Al Jazeera, while 101,223 people have been injur3d by Israeli attacks. In the seven months of the battle, more than 10,000 Palestinian men and women are мιѕѕιиg under the rubble in the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Israel is considered an "apartheid state" due to its illegal occupation and administration of Palestinian territories. The border city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, was designated as a "safe zone" for civilians, but 1.5 million Palestinians, mostly children, have to take refuge here in terrible living conditions.

Despite its previous declaration, Israel still attacked this area, causing great ѕнσ¢к in the international community about the indiscriminate кιℓℓing of civilians.

Since then, K-pop fans in general and BTS fans in particular have supported the BDS movement, taking a pro-Palestinian stance. Fans often ask artists not to support brands that support the Israeli government, and HYBE to stop releasing entertainment products in the country.

On May 9, when HYBE announced a live screening of j-hope's concert in נαραи on May 31, including a full list of cities where the screening would take place, fans noticed that Israel was excluded.

This was a widely welcomed decision amid an ongoing cross-fandom campaign to push HYBE to abandon its ties to Zionism. Fans were excited by this initial discovery, seeing it as a further victory after RM's documentary was also not released in Israel.

However, when some ARMYs decided to check the information through the "PLANET" website - Israel's most popular cinema chain, they realized that the concert was actually still scheduled to be shown in this country.

This discovery angered a significant portion of ARMY fans, with many calling this alleged attempt at hiding the listing worse than doing it up front.

Many also pointed out that HYBE's attempt to hide the screening in Israel only implied that they were aware of the fans' sentiments but chose to deceive rather than take responsibility. Some netizens argued that HYBE was unethical in releasing BTS's documentary in the country, especially during the ongoing war against Palestine.

On the other hand, fans also pointed out that HYBE's move went against BTS's ideals of protecting children and young people.

In the past, BTS launched the Love Myself campaign and the #ENDviolece movement to end abuse and νισℓєи¢є against children and adolescents around the world, in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, raising a total of 6.6 million USD.

A series of criticisms aimed at HYBE are spreading on social media after this move:

- False alarm. The movie seems to be screening there regardless of HYBE trying to hide it in the website to avoid backlash. How pathetic.

- this is worse than just blatantly listing it like what

- so the criticism is нιтting them but since they don't want to change their ways (cut ties) and piss off daddy, they're WITHHOLDING information from fans? not revealing song credits, hiding the settler colony from the initial list of venues, etc. @HYBEOFFICIALtwt, you're complicit

- the movie seems to be screening in itsnotreal but hybe is trying to hide it in the website to avoid backlash. just proves that they know what's going on

- Pfff they’re such losers. At least own it.

- hobi’s movie will be screened in the terr0rist settler-colony ‘israel’ while b0mbs are dropping in Palestine. HYBE is hiding it on the website and it means we’re being heard. USE THE TAGS PLEASE!

- we demand that @HYBEOFFICIALtwt cancels the screening in ‘israel’ and stops art washing this genocide. Stand against ethnic cleansing & genocide, divest from zionism NOW.  

- HYBE IS TRYING TO HIDE THEIR EFFORTS TO ARTWASH GENOCIDE

- Not surprised, they've been known about the boycott since that audit they put out last year but they're trying hard to hide their zionist complicity, this just means we need to boycott even harder

Previously, HYBE also faced a similar wave of outrage when they refused to screen Jungkook and SUGA's documentary in Israel despite ARMYs calling on them to cut ties with Zionism.

Not only that, in the past few months, Scooter Braun, a member of HYBE's Board of Directors and CEO of HYBE αмєяι¢α, was discovered to have an active role in spreading Zionism in the context of Israel's вℓσσ∂y attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Although HYBE has not responded directly to any information about Scooter Braun, The кσяєαn Times mentioned HYBE's statement that "This is a personal opinion, not related to company".

According to fans, this has never been a personal opinion, it belongs to the issue of human ethics and must be condemned. It is impossible to be neutral on issues of ethics and human rights, because neutrality is complicity with evil!