A Los Angeles concert raised $5.5 million for relief organisations working in Palestine and Sudan. The concert’s co-host, Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid, took a moment to thank attendees and performers with a heartfelt note on Instagram. She thanked Sudanese-Canadian artist Mustafa the Poet for organising the concert and actor Pedro Pascal for hosting it alongside her, calling them both “dear friends”.

Talking about the event, Hadid said she saw “love in action” when she looked around the venue. People, she said, chose to show up, “not just for music, not just for community, but for humanity”.

The model said she was moved at the sight and that she and Pascal were honoured to have been able to play a part in it. “Even remembering is a protest,” she wrote about the loss suffered by people in Sudan and Palestine.

The Artists for Aid concert put big names like Shawn Mendes, Chappell Roan and Clairo to its Los Angeles stage alongside musicians, poets and speakers with ancestral ties to Sudan and Palestine.