An actress who stared in The Vampire Diaries has been threatened with violence after she shared an image of herself in hospital.

Anti-Israel activists on social media have targeted Canadian film-star Nina Dobrev after she shared before and after photos on Instagram that showed her being hospitalised with multiple injuries.

The post was captioned, "How it started vs how it’s going". In the first photo Dobrev is on an e-bike, while in the second the actress is lying on a hospital bed with a brace on her left leg and another around her neck.

"I'm OK but it's going to be a long road of recovery ahead," she wrote in an Instagram story.

Within hours of posting the photos, Dobrev was inundated with comments from anti-Israel social media users.

Despite her post having nothing to do with Israel or Palestine, one user wrote: “Maybe that’s what u get for supporting a pro war group”. Numerous others told the 35-year-old actress she “deserved it.”

Some of the comments that flooded Dobrev's post (Photo: Instagram)

Others wrote: “You deserve it, Zionist”, “Maybe karma for supporting Israel”  and “hope the other one breaks too”.

Social media users appear to be furious that the actress shared an Instagram story on October 7 with an image of the Israeli flag and the words “pray for Israel”.

On the day of Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, one user wrote on X: “Nina Dobrev is a full on Zionist she posted like 4 stories defending Israel. We can’t even blame idiocy and misinformation anymore she made a conscious decision.”

On October 7 Dobrev shared a post that said 'pray for Israel' which angered some of her anti-Israel fans (Photo: Instagram)

The harassment against Dobrev comes as social media has been swamped with graphics calling for “all eyes on Rafah.” The AI-generated post has been shared more than 47 million times by Instagram users including celebrities Dua Lipa, Lewis Hamilton and Gigi and Bella Hadid.

The image went viral after a fire at a camp in the southern Gaza city reportedly killed 45 people and injured nearly 250 earlier this week, following an Israeli airstrike.

According to a Times of Israel report, the IDF said that a hidden store of weapons may have been the actual cause of the blaze and that an airstrike that targeted an adjacent area had used small munitions that would not ignite such a fire on their own.