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Freed Israeli hostages held by Hamas were terrified IDF airstrikes would kill them
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this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2023
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Do you have a good resource for that? All I can find are unsubstantiated claims and refutations of said claims. With the only thing that might hold any water being speculation that israeli police and hamas may have caught civilians in the crossfire but even that is pretty weak and I can't find anything other than "it probably happened because it almost always happens when police open fire".
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/viral-post-seeks-to-change-festival-massacre-narrative/
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/nov/17/stew-peters/no-this-video-doesnt-show-israeli-military-killing/
The world is already full of enough misinformation. So how about we don't shit on the memory of murdered civilians and use them to build a narrative to benefit politicians?
The releasee is quoted in the article linked as saying they were fired on by IDF helicopters after being taken hostage.
Obviously assigning motive is going to be speculation. Was the IDF deliberately killing hostages? Seems unlikely to me. Deliberately careless with the lives of hostages when trying to kill Palestinians? Based on the looser use of force rules we've seen from the IDF that seems perfectly possible.
shhhh come now. Don't feed the internet outrage machine. Better to keep a neutral tone so you don't shut down rational argument.
The IDF has a public policy not to allow hostage-taking and even killing the hostage if necessary. It’s controversial but not a new policy.
The link you gave said this was a military policy used.on military, not civilians.
It also appears they stopped doing it a decade ago, according to your source.
If you read the link there’s a controversy on whether they stopped at all. Many of the families of hostages and the released hostages have accused the Israeli government of trying to kill them.