Israeli military says its troops shot and killed three hostages by mistake
Israeli military says its troops shot and killed three hostages by mistake
IDF identifies hostages killed as Yotam Haim, Alon Shamriz and Samer El-Talalqa, saying they were mistakenly believed to be a threat
There must have been a tragic and bizarre set of circumstances to lead to this. The IDF has assured us that they're taking great measures to avoid civilian casualties, and their actions are fully legal and justified. Those hostages must have escaped and taken up arms and attacked the Israeli soldiers by mistake, because otherwise they couldn't possibly have been mistaken for combatants. I'm just flabbergasted, no one could have foreseen something like this happening. It's really shocking.
I read the first part of this comment... then I read the second. 🥇
Israel's global narrative be like:
✅ Collateral damage:
- most hospitals non-functional
- 18,000+ dead
- bakeries can't make food
- infants dead in incubators
- patients forced to "evacuate" under gunfire
- dying of preventable diseases
- 10k people missing/dead and still under rubble
- hundreds held and stripped, others detained in an "unknown location"
- journalists, UN workers, doctors dead while on duty or while sheltering with their families
😥 Tragedy:
- 3 Israeli hostages killed "by mistake" despite having civilian clothes on and being unarmed
Disclaimer: yes, of course, it's a tragedy, but also proof that the IDF targets anything that moves.
“Look what you made us do.”
Which actually is true. You should spend your time condemning the terrorist elected government of Gaza, Hamas needs to be eradicated.
Why are 18k people "collateral damage" but those three are "a tragedy"? Please explain.
Why can’t both be wrong? Neither deserves the land. I’m at the point where I’m starting to think everyone should be removed from the area of Israel and Gaza, etc. and it be declared a world heritage site with a visitor center and museum by each of the three Abrahamic religions/cultures and nobody allowed to actually live there. Everyone gets their holy land visitation and nobody owns it. The states there were artificially created, and they can be removed
Yeah attacking refugee camps, hospitals and private residences will ensure peace for sure.
/s
The number of future terrorists will only increase in numbers because people will have destroyed homes and murdered innocent brothers and fathers to avenge.
FYI: Most people there just make due with what they have and do not even support Hamas.
What about the other potentially tens of thousands "mistakenly" killed civilians or are we pretending that only those three were mistaken?
I see no difference between Hamas and Israel, so you can go on and eradicate both if that's your solution.
An initial IDF probe into the hostage killing incident suggests all three men were shirtless, with one carrying a makeshift white flag.
On seeing them, one Israeli soldier shouted “terrorists!” to the other forces, initiating fire at the men, according to reports.
While two hostages were hit immediately and fell to the ground, the third managed to escape into a nearby building where despite pleas in Hebrew, he was also shot and killed, a military official said.
So what happened we do our outmost to protect civilian lives? Because believing that this is the first time something like this to happen in Gaza is rather naïve.
Hey man, questions are anti-semetic. Until Israel kills six million and one people, try to be respectful.
Basically they killed them because they shot at any civilians.
We accidentally pursued and hunted the third guy to death. Whoopsiedaisy.
It happens. I guess it's good they admitted it instead of just saying Hamas killed them? If only in the thousands of years humans have been alive we could found a way to resolve conflict without killing.
It reveals their character. Kill a few hostages by mistake? That's a tragedy. Kill two civilians in Gaza per Hamas fighter? Regrettable, but "tremendously positive."
Hamas, the Israeli government, and the IDF are three sides of the same die: murderers with no respect for their fellow human.
- IDF shot unarmed civilians waving white flag
- target was unarmed and not returning fire yet IDF killed just 2 of 3 at first try
- IDF was scared
- IDF didn't follow orders
Great army /s
Or they DID follow orders...
It's just they turned out to be hostages instead of random palestinian civilians...
Yeah, this trumps all the recent intense propaganda about the IDF being professional and meticulous.
Previously another 3 hostages were "found dead" and I'm now really wondering if they killed those too
Biden can you support Isreal to defend itself against the IDF by not giving them anymore money or guns..
oops hehe sorry guys
The mistake part was they were the wrong hostages
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Israeli military has said that its troops shot and killed three hostages being held by Hamas after mistakenly identifying them as a threat during fighting in a battle-torn neighbourhood of Gaza City.
The announcement on Friday came amid heavy fighting across the embattled territory that led to an influx of dead and wounded into hospitals in Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah.
Al Jazeera initially said that video journalist Samer Abu Daqqa and its chief correspondent in Gaza, Wael al-Dahdouh, had been injured by shrapnel when they were reporting at a school that had been hit by an earlier airstrike.
Earlier on Friday, the IDF recovered the bodies of three other hostages in Gaza: Elya Toledano, 28, a French-Israeli civilian, and two soldiers, Nik Beizer and Ron Scherman, both 19.
Families of the hostages said this week they were “shocked” by the announcement by the director of Israeli intelligence agency the Mossad that he was refusing to conduct new negotiations to free them, and demanded an explanation from the authorities.
A resident of Tel Aviv, he was at the Nova music festival along with his friend and fellow French-Israeli Mia Schem, who was released under a truce agreement at the end of November.
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We should be furious with Hamas for using them as shields. Though again, Hamas has majority support amongst residents in Gaza, so...
Fighting in dense urban conditions like this, 18k is definitely an attempt to minimize civilian casualties. If they were intentionally causing them, they wouldn't go in at all. They'd just kill magnitudes more (hundreds of thousands or millions) without risking soldiers. They easily have the firepower to do it.
We should all condemn their elected terrorists for forcing the theater to be amongst civilians. It's a war crime, co-location strip protections, and legitimized targeting places that would otherwise be protected by international law.
Ohhhh, furious with Hamas or with the IDF, who killed 3 shirtless people waving a white flag? Are you living in a parallel reality or are you so brainwashed?
In an environment where that's the standard tactic of Hamas, hide behind civilians, yeah, I understand the friendly fire. This is Hamas. They blew up their own hospital, hoping ppl like worldnews would blame Israel for it... and they did.
If you think that while hiding amongst civilians or while keeping hostages they aren't trained to try and appear like innocents, then I don't know how to help you. It's literally their main tactic.
