Israel publishes messages written on cloth by hostages who were killed by Israeli soldiers

The Israeli Armed Forces have published this Sunday messages apparently written in blood on cloth and hung on walls that would have been left by the three Israeli hostages who were shot dead on Friday by the Israeli soldiers themselves despite the fact that they were naked from the waist up. They had their hands raised and one of them even carried a white flag.

On these improvised banners they had written “SOS”, “Help, 3 hostages” and they were posted on a building located a few hundred meters from where the shooting occurred in which Yotam Haim, Samar Talalka and Alon Lulu Shamriz died, in Shejaiya. , in the north of the Gaza Strip.

The messages were discovered on Wednesday, but any response was rejected because they considered it to be a ruse by Hamas militias to lure the military into booby-trapped areas.

“After the tragic incident in which three Israeli hostages were accidentally shot by members of the Israel Defense Forces, the nearby building was searched and posters asking for help were found (…). “It appears that the three kidnapped people were in the building for at least some time,” a military statement said.

Military spokesman Daniel Hagari explained that they are investigating a second building where the hostages could also have been held.

This Sunday, the Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli Armed Forces, Herzl Halevi, stressed that “we do not shoot people with their hands up.”

“We hope to have another chance and that hostages come to us and we can do the right thing,” he declared during a meeting with the military.. “I will tell you in a very simple way. The incident is very difficult and painful and no one will tell you otherwise.. I tell you that it is an incident that could have been avoided very easily,” he argued.

“Think. Why did we enter (Gaza)? “We have set ourselves three objectives: dismantle Hamas, restore the security of the residents of the (border) communities and the third mission is to recover the hostages,” he said.. “You see people with their hands up and without shirts and you take two seconds,” he stressed.

The military official has warned that they should not shoot at unarmed Gazans either. “And I tell you something else no less important. If they are two Gazans with a white flag who come to surrender, should we shoot them? Absolutely not. Absolutely not,” Halevi stressed.. “Even those who have fought and now hand over their weapons and raise their hands, we capture them, we do not shoot them. We have obtained a lot of intelligence information from the prisoners we have. We already have more than a thousand,” he highlighted.

“We do not shoot them because the IDF does not shoot people who raise their hands. It is a strength, not a weakness,” stressed the top Israeli military official.