{"id":3038,"date":"2026-05-21T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/bella-hadids-palestine-key-necklace-at-cannes-film-festival-2026-meaning-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:58:00","slug":"bella-hadids-palestine-key-necklace-at-cannes-film-festival-2026-meaning-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/bella-hadids-palestine-key-necklace-at-cannes-film-festival-2026-meaning-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Hadid&#8217;s Palestine key necklace at Cannes Film Festival 2026: Meaning explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/128408660.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Bella Hadid wore a gold Palestinian key pendant to the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on May 19. <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A small necklace with a weighty message.<\/p>\n<p>Bella Hadid <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/style\/bella-hadid-cannes-2026-outfits\/\">always turns heads<\/a> on the red carpet at the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/style\/cannes-film-festival-2026-red-carpet-celebrity-looks\/\">Cannes Film Festival<\/a>, but on Tuesday, it was a subtle piece of jewelry that drew the most attention.<\/p>\n<p>The supermodel wore a gold key pendant with teeth cut in the shape of historic Palestine, strung on a simple black leather cord.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The necklace features teeth shaped like the map of historic Palestine, strung on a black leather cord. <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Known as the \u201ckey of return,\u201d the symbol is tied to the displacement of Palestinians during the 1948 Nakba. <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The key is one of the most enduring symbols of Palestinian identity. When more than 700,000 Palestinians were displaced during the 1948 Nakba \u2014 Arabic for \u201ccatastrophe\u201d \u2014 many fled carrying little more than the keys to their homes, believing they would return within days. <\/p>\n<p>Those keys became family heirlooms, carried across generations as symbols of what Palestinians call the \u201cright of return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hadid wore the necklace four days after Nakba Day, observed annually on May 15. She let the piece shine against an all-black outfit: a backless Tom Ford turtleneck and matching low-slung trousers, accented with a skinny leather belt slung across her bare waist.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The model\u2019s father, Mohamed Hadid, was born to a Palestinian family, and she often uses fashion to pay tribute to her heritage. <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>At Cannes in 2024, Hadid wore a vintage keffiyeh-fabric dress by Michael and Hushi. <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The model\u2019s father, Mohamed Hadid, was born to a Palestinian family, and she often uses fashion to highlight her heritage.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, she <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/05\/23\/style\/bella-hadid-wears-keffiyeh-dress-at-cannes-free-palestine-forever\/\">walked the Croisette in a vintage Michael and Hushi dress made from keffiyeh fabric<\/a>, the traditional checkered cloth that\u2019s become a global marker of Palestinian solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Between videos of gala premieres and sun-kissed photo shoots, the \u00d4rebella founder also shared an Instagram Story condemning Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir\u2019s treatment of detained activists from the Gaza-bound Sumud Flotilla.<\/p>\n<p>On her Instagram profile, Hadid still has a 2021 post pinned showing a poster that reads \u201cIt\u2019s Free Palestine \u2018Til Palestine Is Free,\u201d captioned in part: \u201cA Palestinian girl on the cover of Vogue. The joy it brings me to say that \u2026 I won\u2019t stop talking about the systematic oppression, pain and humility that Palestinians face on a regular basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/21\/style\/bella-hadids-palestine-key-necklace-at-cannes-film-festival-2026-meaning-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bella Hadid wore a gold Palestinian key pendant to the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/128408660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}