As explained by the Israeli military, they wrongly identified the three hostages as a threat, shot and killed them.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) acknowledged on Friday that they had accidentally killed three of the hostages taken by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) during an operation in Shejaiya, northern Gaza Strip. Gaza Strip. north of the Gaza Strip, against Israeli territory on October 7.
“During the fighting in Shejaiya, an IDF force incorrectly identified three Israeli hostages as a threat. As a result, the troops shot at them and killed them,” the Israeli army said on its official social networking profile X, formerly Twitter.
As described by the Israeli military, during the inspection of the incident area, the troops doubted the identity of the hostages, so they opened fire on them. Their bodies were later transferred to Israeli territory, where they were effectively identified as hostages of the Palestinian militia.
Finally, the IDF has stressed that it has “immediately” opened an investigation to clarify what happened, which has already been brought to the attention of the troops deployed in Gaza because “numerous incidents have occurred in recent years in the Shejaiya area.” “.
Source: EITB
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