There must have been a tragic and bizarre set of circumstances to lead to this. The IDF has assured us that they're taking great measures to avoid civilian casualties, and their actions are fully legal and justified. Those hostages must have escaped and taken up arms and attacked the Israeli soldiers by mistake, because otherwise they couldn't possibly have been mistaken for combatants. I'm just flabbergasted, no one could have foreseen something like this happening. It's really shocking.
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I read the first part of this comment... then I read the second. 🥇
Israel's global narrative be like:
✅ Collateral damage:
- most hospitals non-functional
- 18,000+ dead
- bakeries can't make food
- infants dead in incubators
- patients forced to "evacuate" under gunfire
- dying of preventable diseases
- 10k people missing/dead and still under rubble
- hundreds held and stripped, others detained in an "unknown location"
- journalists, UN workers, doctors dead while on duty or while sheltering with their families
😥 Tragedy:
- 3 Israeli hostages killed "by mistake" despite having civilian clothes on and being unarmed
Disclaimer: yes, of course, it's a tragedy, but also proof that the IDF targets anything that moves.
An initial IDF probe into the hostage killing incident suggests all three men were shirtless, with one carrying a makeshift white flag.
On seeing them, one Israeli soldier shouted “terrorists!” to the other forces, initiating fire at the men, according to reports.
While two hostages were hit immediately and fell to the ground, the third managed to escape into a nearby building where despite pleas in Hebrew, he was also shot and killed, a military official said.
So what happened we do our outmost to protect civilian lives? Because believing that this is the first time something like this to happen in Gaza is rather naïve.
Hey man, questions are anti-semetic. Until Israel kills six million and one people, try to be respectful.
Basically they killed them because they shot at any civilians.
We accidentally pursued and hunted the third guy to death. Whoopsiedaisy.
It happens. I guess it's good they admitted it instead of just saying Hamas killed them? If only in the thousands of years humans have been alive we could found a way to resolve conflict without killing.
It reveals their character. Kill a few hostages by mistake? That's a tragedy. Kill two civilians in Gaza per Hamas fighter? Regrettable, but "tremendously positive."
Hamas, the Israeli government, and the IDF are three sides of the same die: murderers with no respect for their fellow human.
- IDF shot unarmed civilians waving white flag
- target was unarmed and not returning fire yet IDF killed just 2 of 3 at first try
- IDF was scared
- IDF didn't follow orders
Great army /s
Or they DID follow orders...
It's just they turned out to be hostages instead of random palestinian civilians...
Biden can you support Isreal to defend itself against the IDF by not giving them anymore money or guns..
oops hehe sorry guys
The mistake part was they were the wrong hostages