Posted on 12/16/2023 3:11:09 PM PST by Chicory
Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Israeli hostages in northern Gaza after misidentifying them as threats, the Israel Defense Forces said.
“During combat in Shejaiya, the IDF mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages as a threat. As a result, the troops fired toward them and they were killed,” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a news briefing on Friday.
“During searches and checks in the area in which the incident occurred, a suspicion arose over the identities of the deceased,” Hagari added. “Their bodies were transferred to Israeli territory for examination, after which it was confirmed that they were three Israeli hostages.”
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Hamas killed these hostages.
Meanwhile, Hamas and their supporters are laughing their arses off.....
They wouldn’t be hostages if not for the filthy ragheads in case anyone forgot
Friendly fire is just inevitable in such a godforsaken situation. Heartbreaking. Their blood is on Hamas’ hands.
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It’s like when a military cook in 1945 as part of a black market detail shot and killed Anton Webern because he was sitting outside, smoking a black market cigar.
War stinks. The hostages would have never been hostages except for Hamas and their disgusting holocaustal attack on October 7. Don’t blame the IDF, blame the death-loving jihadis.
What do their toxicology reports show? It would be typical of Hamas to drug a hostage then release them in the area of IDF soldiers so they’d perhaps ignore commands or behave suspiciously or as expected of a civilian.
A terrible thing. I hope it doesn’t cause any IDF soldiers to hesitate now when they shouldn’t.
“Hamas killed these hostages.”
Much more plausible.
That poor bastard will probably suffer more guilt and punishment than Aharon Haliva (IDF intelligence) and Yaron Finkelman (IDF Southern Command) who should already be imprisoned for dereliction of duty if not worse. They were too busy trying to overthrow the Netanyahu government to do their jobs.
Hey! The Hammies were using them for shields. The blood is on the Hammies’ hands.
Guy will live with that forever. Would not be surprised if he self-deletes.
Gives media more things to object to what Israel is doing to Hamas.
Absolutely.
Crap happens in war...
America has had its share...
An American sub sank a ship carrying about 700 American prisoners of the Germans...
Thousands of American prisoners working as slave labor in both German and jap factories were killed by bombing raids...
Friendly ship gun-fire killed many Marines on Pelileu and Guam...
Friendly land-based artillery fire killed many American soldiers and Marines...
Etc...Etc...
I thought the exact same thing—i can not imagine what he is going through. Poor man...
Unfortunately the news reports that he shot when he should have hesitated, as they had a white flag.
That was from a different story I read the entirety of but couldn’t get the link.
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