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Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by IDF in Gaza were holding makeshift white flag, official says (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Does the fact that they held a white flag not rule out a "mistake"?

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You know someone will state that a “common Hamas tactic” any minute now

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well didn’t take long just found this in a different post…

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Wow, I like the one guy farther down who claims Likud is awful but it's Hamas propaganda that the IDF kills kids.... like the massive dead civilian and kid numbers are just all propaganda to make a genocidal ethnistate look bad.