Three Israeli hostages captured by Hamas had been mistakenly killed by Israeli troops preventing within the Shijaiyah neighborhood east of Gaza Metropolis, the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) introduced Friday.
The victims had been recognized by the IDF as Yotam Haim, who was kidnapped by Hamas from Kfar Aza on Oct. 7, and Samer Talalka, who was kidnapped from Nir Am. The identification of the third sufferer was not disclosed on the request of the household.
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari mentioned Israeli troops discovered the hostages and erroneously recognized them as a menace. “Consequently the pressure fired at them and so they had been killed,” he wrote on X, the platform previously often known as Twitter. “Throughout a scan and inspection of the world of the incident, a suspicion arose concerning the identification of the lifeless. The our bodies had been taken for examination in Israeli territory, after which it turned out that they had been three Israeli abductees.”
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Hagari mentioned the IDF is investigating the incident.
“This can be a fight zone the place there have been many incidents in current days. Quick classes from the occasion are actually being handed on to all of the preventing forces within the area,” the IDF mentioned in a press release. “The IDF expresses deep sorrow for the incident and shares within the grief of the households. The IDF will proceed to behave in all efforts to return the abductees residence.”
The three victims had been among the many greater than 200 hostages who had been captured in the course of the Oct. 7 Hamas assault in Israel, which killed roughly 1,200. The Israeli authorities has mentioned there are an estimated 137 hostages nonetheless held by Hamas. The outbreak of struggle has resulted in vital destruction in northern Gaza, with at the very least 18,000 lifeless and 85% of the inhabitants displaced, in response to the United Nations.
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