Posted on 12/16/2023 8:23:13 PM PST by FarCenter
The three Israeli hostages who were mistakenly shot dead by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Gaza Strip were carrying a stick with a makeshift white flag at the time of the incident, an Israeli military spokesperson said, according to Reuters, Spanish news agency EFE and Israeli media.
The incident happened in an area of intense combat where Hamas militants operate in civilian attire and use deception tactics, he said. The hostages were aged 25 to 28 years.
The soldier who shot at the hostages believed the men were moving toward him as an attempt by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas to lure IDF soldiers into a trap, the IDF official said.
Israel-Hamas war: Hostages killed by IDF were 'holding white flag'
06:17 The official also said that soldiers had found a poster with the letters SOS on a nearby building.
They were all shirtless, and one was carrying a makeshift white flag. The soldier immediately opened fire and shouted "terrorists" to alert the other forces, the Times of Israel reported.
According to Israeli media, the probe concluded that the soldier killed two hostages, while the third was hurt and retreated back into the building, calling for help in Hebrew. At that point, the battalion commander is said to have ordered a cease-fire.
The third hostage later came out and was shot dead by another soldier.
"This was against our rules of engagement," Reuters cited the IDF official as saying. The officer said both soldiers who opened fire, killing the three hostages, did so against protocol.
Good grief.
Bkmk
Did this trigger happy autofellatory pig-fornicator ever stop to think that Hamas is going to tell all the remaining hostages about this, with footage and third-party news articles?
Let me guess, the hostage that got shot was a Netanyahu voter, a "dangerous right-wing Jewish supremacist" ? /sarc>
Did the terrorists send this guy a congratulatory telegram?
If only you had been there to direct the mission, lives would have been saved.
Can you say prop a gand a?
Absolutely heartbreaking and inconsolable for the families of those three young men and for the soldier and his family that shot them by mistake.
My thought was that the soldier feels terrible about this.
I cannot fathom the pressure the IDF troops are under in this current situation.
I doubt the IDF soldiers had any idea of how the hostage voted. Nor do you.
Agreed. The blame is solely on Hamas/Gazans for fighting while wearing civilian clothes instead of military clothes. Muslims also have 1,400 years of history in fake surrenders/taqyiyya to lure opponents into an attack.
In fairness to GW, I think he was sarcastically pointing out how Big Media likes to use any incident to smear Netanyahu
Like metmom said in #9, just an awful situation all-around with too much pressure
Devolving into a take no prisoners kind of total war. A Holy War, the worst kind that men wage. Might as well use nukes.
This is an example of why I wish every poster on FreeRepublic who is writing something sarcastic, no matter how obvious it seems to the poster, would include the little “end sarcasm” symbol after their post. It is only 2 keystrokes.
Hostages running around free; something smells odd about this.
Easy to criticize when you don’t have hordes of terrorists trying to kill you - don’t be a tool.
If that's the case, then my apologies.
>>Devolving into a take no prisoners kind of total war.
I haven’t found anything reliable about the number of Hamas fighters killed or taken prisoner by the IDF.
There seems to be complete silence on both sides about this.
Ham ass sent them out knowing what was going to happen.
I was making an analogy to our FBI targeting MAGA voters, as well as pointing out the deep divisions in Israel.
For this situation (going after Hamas in Gaza) there are no good neutral choices.
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