By Maayan Lubell
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Indicators studying “S.O.S.” and “help, three hostages” in Hebrew had been discovered on the partitions of a Gaza constructing the place three Israeli hostages had been hiding earlier than they had been mistakenly killed, Israel’s army mentioned on Sunday.
The army distributed pictures of the white fabric indicators written in crimson, possible with leftover meals. They had been held on a constructing about 200 meters from the place the hostages had been shot, army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari mentioned.
The Israeli army on Friday recognized the three hostages killed in Shejaiya, an jap suburb of Gaza Metropolis, as Yotam Haim and Alon Shamriz, kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, and Samer Al-Talalka, kidnapped from close by Kibbutz Nir Am.
It mentioned they’d raised a white flag and had been shirtless when shot, towards Israel’s guidelines of engagement. Israel’s army chief instructed troops inside Gaza to not repeat that mistake.
The Israeli army is investigating the deaths.
“What if it is two Gazans with a white flag coming out to surrender, do we shoot them? Absolutely not,” mentioned Chief of the Normal Workers Main-Normal Herzi Halevi. “Even those who are fighting us, if they lay down their arms and raise their hands, we arrest them, we don’t shoot them,” he added.
As Shamriz was laid to relaxation on Sunday, his mom Dikla stood over his flag-draped coffin.
“My child, you were strong, determined, smart. You were a hero. You survived 70 days in hell. I know you felt us all the time, the way we felt you. Another moment and you would have been in my arms,” she mentioned, as many household and associates wept.
Greater than 100 Israeli hostages stay in Gaza, held incommunicado regardless of Israeli requires Pink Cross entry.
In a deal struck in late November, greater than 100 ladies, kids, teenagers and foreigners had been launched. Different hostages have been declared useless by Israeli authorities.
Hamas militants rampaged by Israeli cities on Oct. 7., killing 1,200 individuals and capturing 240 hostages. Israel then launched a counter-attack, throughout which Gaza well being authorities say near 19,000 individuals have been killed.
