{"id":243997,"date":"2023-12-18T07:28:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T07:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=243997"},"modified":"2023-12-18T07:28:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T07:28:07","slug":"three-israeli-hostages-used-food-to-write-signs-pleading-for-help-before-being-mistakenly-shot-dead-idf-says-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/three-israeli-hostages-used-food-to-write-signs-pleading-for-help-before-being-mistakenly-shot-dead-idf-says-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Israeli hostages used food to write signs pleading for help before being mistakenly shot dead, IDF says | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
THREE Israeli hostages used food to write signs begging for help before they were mistakenly shot dead by the IDF.<\/p>\n
Yotam Haim, 28, Samer Talalka, 22, and Alon Shamriz, 26 were killed in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City on Friday.<\/p>\n
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An Israeli official said the men had emerged shirtless from a building with one carrying a white flag on a stick.<\/p>\n
They were tens of metres away but feeling threatened, an IDF soldier declared them "terrorists" and opened fire.<\/p>\n
Two were killed immediately while the third returned to the building wounded.<\/p>\n
After hearing a scream for help in Hebrew a commander ordered troops to cease fire before the hostage re-emerged.<\/p>\n
He was then shot and killed.<\/p>\n Israeli authorities admitted that killing the trio as they held a white flag was a breach of "rules of engagement".<\/p>\n When Israeli forces searched the building on Sunday they found "SOS" and "Help, 3 hostages" written in food on fabric.<\/p>\n It is not clear if the men – who had survived 70 days inside Gaza – had been abandoned by their captors or escaped.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The shootings triggered huge protests in Tel Aviv on Friday as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets.<\/p>\n They spilled red paint and screamed "deal, now!" as they demanded the Israeli government free hostages immediately.<\/p>\n The three men were among 240 kidnapped on October 7 when gunmen cut through the Gaza border fence and slaughtered 1,139 people.<\/p>\n Samer Talalka was reportedly toiling in a field in Southern Israel's Kibbutz Nir Am when terrorists wounded him before taking him to Gaza.<\/p>\n Yotam Haim and Alon Shamriz were both abducted from Kibbutz Kfar Aza the same day.<\/p>\n Alon was laid to rest in Israel on Sunday, as thousands of mourners turned out to pay their respects.<\/p>\n In a eulogy, his brother Ido blamed the Israeli authorities for his kidnapping and death, adding: "I hope your death will command life.<\/p>\n "And they will realise the lives of our hostages are critical, and they have to act quickly to free everyone."<\/p>\n IDF Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi told troops on Saturday the incident must never be repeated.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cYou see two people, they are with hands up and without shirts, take two seconds, and I want to tell you something just as important.<\/p>\n "And if it's two Gazans with a white flag coming out to surrender why would we shoot at them? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. That's not the IDF.\u201d<\/p>\n More than 100 Israeli hostages remain in Gaza, held incommunicado despite Israeli calls for Red Cross access.<\/p>\n In a deal struck in late November, more than 100 women, children, teens and foreigners were released. <\/p>\n Other hostages have been declared dead by Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n<\/picture>EASE OFF PLEA <\/span><\/p>\n
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