Dec 15 (Reuters) - The Israeli military mistakenly killed three hostages being held in Gaza by Hamas during an incident which is “under review”, a military spokesperson said on Friday.
The military said the hostages were killed during combat with militants in Gaza and expressed its condolences to the families while saying there would be “full transparency” in the investigation into the incident.
A statement from the military said that during an intense battle in Gaza it “identified three Israeli hostages as a threat”. “As a result, the troops fired toward them and they were killed.”
Earlier on Friday, the Israeli military said it had recovered the bodies of three Israelis - a civilian and two soldiers - who had been held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas.
Just wait until someone on the internet /seriously/ argues that it was like the end of The Dark Knight were the Joker tied guns in the hands of the hostages and dressed them as terrorists…
I mean I can realistically see IDF troops not outright /intending/ to kill the hostages in a hostage rescue mission and mistaking them for the hostage takers due to poor training, bad decisions or you know just generally being amped up on genocidal bloodlust…
… but that still means that more or less yeah, theyre unprofessional, and apparently used to shooting people that look like hostages, and that their Hostage Rescue Teams are uh… pretty fucking bad at their jobs.
You would think they’d been you know like properly briefed with the names and physical descriptions of the hostages, and that you’d only send in a guns blazing team if they were absolutely certain that that plan would work, ie, theyd know the names and descriptions … and positions, and roles of the hostage takers, so as to incapacitate all the threats in a flash, as close to simultaneous as possible.
Any way you cut it, this is a massive, royal fuck up, and it only gets worse the more I think about it.
One of the first hostages to be recovered said that the IDF shot tank rounds into the building that they were all being held in.
… What?
I … ok.
I had not heard that.
Well ok then, so … they … do not have or are not using Hostage Rescue Teams, and are just sending the standard IDF forces, not specialized units?
I do not even know what to say beyond ‘That is completely insane.’
She was the only hostage to actually make it out of the exchange, I believe there was something like less than 10 others who were being held with her but she said in an interview that the rest were killed by the IDF. I’d assume that they haven’t made the hostages a major priority because any of them that have been recovered have told the media that they were treated well considering the conditions. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231021-israel-settler-israel-forces-killed-hostages-not-hamas/
