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.
This basically proves the idf is just firing at unarmed civilians. It’s not like the hostages would have been armed, from what it sounds like they just saw three “military aged males” running towards them with there arms up and opened fire
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.’
Critical support to Comrade IDF’s ongoing war against Israeli settlers. This is their greatest achievement since shooting their civilians with helicopters.
Imagine if the IDF turned on Israel 🤔 would they be able to liberate the Palestinian people?
I have faith that they will in the end.
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The IDF funded Hamas which today is the only force militantly liberating the Palestinian people
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The IDF did the most significant attack against Israelis in its history, both using its Hamas paramilitary forces and helicopters to make a firm statement against the illegal settlements.
Let 'em cook hostages.
The IOF doesn’t admit to murder, they “identified three Israeli hostages as a threat” and “as a result, the troops fired toward them and they were killed”.
After the bullets leave the gun, the shooter is no longer responsible for where they go or who they enter, like with cops.
The other Israeli hostages they killed were very intentional.
So that’s at least 30 to 60
