Gal Gadot on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar España’s March 2025 issue. Photo: Harper’s Bazaar España

Israeli actress Gal Gadot is on the cover of the March 2025 issue of Spanish Harper’s Bazaar, and in her cover story for the magazine, she discussed wanting an end to the Israel-Hamas war that began a year and a half ago.

The Petah Tikva native, who stars as the Evil Queen in the live-action remake of the Disney classic “Snow White” debuting next month, also told Harper’s Bazaar España she longs for a swift return of all the hostages that Hamas-led terrorists kidnapped during their deadly rampage across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and took back to the Gaza Strip. The mother of four and “Wonder Woman” star said she hopes for an end to the Israel-Hamas war that would result in a “diplomatic agreement that allows all parts of the table to live a good and prosperous life.”

“I know it sounds cliché, but just as they are teaching us to hate, growing antisemitism, we can also teach us to love,” said Gadot, 39. “I want to believe that love is the force that moves the world. War is a defeat for everyone. Hatred is horrible. It’s toxic to the outside and to the one who hates it.”

Gadot was then asked by the publication if her faith in love conquering all has diminished at all in light of the atrocities experienced by Israel during the war, and how it has impacted Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip under Hamas control. “We can’t afford to lose hope because, if not, what do we have left?” replied the actress, who lives in Los Angeles with her family. “They say it’s always darker before dawn, so I hope that this terrible place we are in now really leads us to the change we all seek. The light will win.”

On Wednesday, the bodies of former Hamas hostages Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two sons – Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 10 months old – were buried in Israel after being returned days earlier as part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel. Gadot posted about their burial on her Instagram Story and images of Shiri and her two red-headed young boys. “Today, Shiri, Ariel and Kfir will be laid to rest,” Gadot wrote. “The heart is heavy, and the pain is unbearable.”

Gadot has spoken on social media several times about the hostages abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, including one post that highlighted 19-year-old Israeli Liri Albag. In September 2024, she talked about how her life has been impacted by the terrorist attack in October 2023.

“I feel like there’s the life until Oct. 7 and the life after Oct. 7,” Gadot said. “Oct. 7 was a turning point for the entire Jewish community around the world. No one has ever expected or thought that such a horrific thing could happen to our people — could happen in general in the world in 2024. There’s not a day that goes by without me thinking about the hostages and the fact that we’re even here now talking [while] they’re there in Gaza in the tunnels in this hellish reality. That breaks my heart.”

Gadot shared on social media in December 2024 that during the eighth month of her pregnancy last year with her forth daughter, Ori, she had to undergo emergency surgery to treat a blood clot in her brain.