It’s been a week since the Israeli army’s terrible failure: they were shot last Friday IDF soldiers accidentally took three hostages in Gaza while holding a white piece of cloth on a stick in the air.
Now the Army is revealing dramatic details of the previous operation in the hunt Hamas-Terrorists. As army spokesman Daniel Hagari announced on Thursday night, one of the search dogs used had recorded the voices of the hostages with a body camera.
Hagari said the recorded voices were those of the hostages shot five days later. The search dog was sent into a building to scout it out.
Hagari: “The terrorists shot the dog, and from that point on we heard the voices of the hostages.” The camera on the body of the dog that was killed in the operation was only found and evaluated on Tuesday.
The building is about a kilometer away from where the hostages were later shot. After analyzing the camera footage, it is assumed that the men who held the hostages were killed in the incident. The hostages were then apparently able to escape from the building.
After the deadly mistake in Shejaiya, the army said the soldiers had violated the rules of engagement when they opened fire on the defenseless hostages.
After the incident, the bodies of those killed were brought to Israeli territory and identified. Two of them are Yotam Haim (28) and Samer Talalka (22), who were kidnapped from their kibbutzim to Gaza by Hamas terrorists during the massacre on October 7th. The name of the third hostage killed was not released at the request of relatives.
According to Israeli information, there are currently 129 hostages in the Gaza Strip. At a meeting with the families of the hostages, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu emphasized that his intelligence chief David Barnea was working on the release of all those abducted.
As AFP learned from negotiating circles, Barnea met this week with the head of the US foreign intelligence service CIA, Bill Burns, and Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Warsaw, Poland.