Israeli soldiers heard pleas for help from hostages they mistakenly killed in Gaza

Israeli soldiers were in the same building as three hostages mistakenly killed in the Gaza strip and heard their calls for help five days before the events, according to the conclusions of an army investigation published this Thursday.

On December 10, soldiers attacked a building and they heard shouts in Hebrew saying “hostages” It is “help!” The military believed, however, that it was a trap set by military fighters. Hamas at this property in Shujaya, in the east of the city of Link.

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Thinking the building had explosives, the soldiers left.. Five fighters Hamas who were guarding the hostages were later killed by Israeli helicopter gunfire as they tried to flee the building, the investigation indicates.

The hostages “probably” later fled, the study points out.

Five days later, Israeli soldiers shot at them, “identifying them as threats”. Two died instantly. The third fled and, according to the investigation, the military was ordered not to shoot to identify him.

The battalion commander, hearing shouts in Hebrew of “Help!” It is “they are shooting at me!”, he asked the surviving hostage to advance towards them and told his troops not to fire.

But two soldiers, “who did not hear the order because of the noise of a nearby tank,” shot him.

The three hostages were shirtless and waving a white flag.

The day before the incident, December 14, an army drone identified writing on a building 200 meters from the place where the hostages were killed. “SOS.“,”help, three hostages”, said the inscriptions.

“The army failed in its mission to rescue the hostages,” declared the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, General Herzi Halevi, in a statement. The shooting of the three hostages “could have been avoided”he added.

The victims are Yotam Haïm28 years old and Samer al-Talalqa, 25 years old. Both were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Am during the attack. Hamas in southern Israel on October 7.

The third hostage is Alon Lulu Shamriz26 years old, from kibbutz Kfar Aza.

Nearly 250 people were kidnapped that day and 129 remain captives in Gaza, according to Israeli officials.

In response to the Islamic group’s attack, Israel launched a military offensive in the Strip, governed by Hamas since 2007.

Source: Elcomercio

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