New details emerge following news of the death in the Gaza Strip of three hostages, killed by Israeli soldiers in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City, in what was described as a “tragic accident”. The Times of Israel writes about the three hostages who managed to free themselves from Hamas after being kidnapped on October 7, and specifies that according to a Southern Command official, who refers to the initial stages of an internal investigation, it all started when a soldier he saw three people coming out of a building dozens of meters away, coming towards him, all shirtless, one of them with an improvised white flag, a baton with white cloth. The soldier, believing it was a Hamas trap, opened fire and shouted “terrorists” to alert other soldiers, we read.
According to the investigation by the IDF Southern Command, the soldier killed two people, while the third was injured and returned to the building from which he had left. Then came the order to stop the fire. The soldiers who were in the area heard requests for “help” in their own language, in Hebrew, and shortly afterwards the man left the building again, but another soldier shot, killing him. All three bodies were taken to Israel, the newspaper said. According to the police officer, the two soldiers acted without respecting protocols.
The IDF, the official quoted by the newspaper said, has not identified a single civilian in Shejaiya in recent days and has killed at least 38 Palestinian “terrorists” in the area, where the only people seen wearing civilian clothes were Palestinians. , often unarmed. After the murder of hostages Yotam Haim, Samar Talalka and Alon Lulu Shamriz, the Times of Israel writes that Hamas men picked up weapons left in several buildings, opened fire on Israeli troops and then fled again unarmed. The article about the investigation also talks about “apparently unarmed” civilians seen by the IDF in the area, who were later revealed to be “Hamas suicide bombers”, and specifies that the IDF never considered a scenario in which hostages might be wandering around. around an area that was the scene of clashes.
Source: IL Tempo

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