This is in addition to the three hostages shot and killed by the IDF after their “misidentification” while waving a white flag and shouting in hebrew earlier last month
devil's advocate: hamas and other islamist militants do use dirty tactics like false surrender all the time. IDF soldiers are probably ordered to shoot anyone who tries to get close on sight.
Apparently in the instance I refer to, the superior officer had given orders not to fire, because they were responding to some kind of SOS - the article was paywalled and on haaretz though so make of that what you will lol
This is in addition to the three hostages shot and killed by the IDF after their “misidentification” while waving a white flag and shouting in hebrew earlier last month
devil's advocate: hamas and other islamist militants do use dirty tactics like false surrender all the time. IDF soldiers are probably ordered to shoot anyone who tries to get close on sight.
Apparently in the instance I refer to, the superior officer had given orders not to fire, because they were responding to some kind of SOS - the article was paywalled and on haaretz though so make of that what you will lol
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-21/ty-article/.premium/investigation-into-killing-of-israeli-hostages-by-idf-reveals-a-string-of-errors-and-flaws/0000018c-890c-d60e-afdf-ed0ec51e0000