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.

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.

“Look what you made us do.”

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.

Basically they killed them because they shot at any civilians.

We accidentally pursued and hunted the third guy to death. Whoopsiedaisy.

By mistake?

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.

• 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

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

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Israeli military has said that its troops shot and killed three hostages being held by Hamas after mistakenly identifying them as a threat during fighting in a battle-torn neighbourhood of Gaza City.

The announcement on Friday came amid heavy fighting across the embattled territory that led to an influx of dead and wounded into hospitals in Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah.

Al Jazeera initially said that video journalist Samer Abu Daqqa and its chief correspondent in Gaza, Wael al-Dahdouh, had been injured by shrapnel when they were reporting at a school that had been hit by an earlier airstrike.

Earlier on Friday, the IDF recovered the bodies of three other hostages in Gaza: Elya Toledano, 28, a French-Israeli civilian, and two soldiers, Nik Beizer and Ron Scherman, both 19.

Families of the hostages said this week they were “shocked” by the announcement by the director of Israeli intelligence agency the Mossad that he was refusing to conduct new negotiations to free them, and demanded an explanation from the authorities.

A resident of Tel Aviv, he was at the Nova music festival along with his friend and fellow French-Israeli Mia Schem, who was released under a truce agreement at the end of November.

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