Helicopter Fire – Israeli Army Admits Killing of Captive on October 7

By Palestine Chronicle Employees  

This is without doubt one of the outcomes of a sequence of inner investigations carried out by the Israeli military.

The Israeli military acknowledged on Friday that it killed an Israeli settler by hearth from considered one of its helicopters within the Gaza Strip on October 7, Israeli media reported.

Efrat Katz, 68, was killed within the Kibbutz Nir Oz following the army operation carried out by the Palestinian Resistance motion Hamas.

“Based on the investigation, amid battles that happened in southern Israel on October 7, an (Israeli Air Drive) helicopter opened hearth towards a automobile,” the Occasions of Israeli newspaper reported, citing a army assertion.

“It was later revealed, based mostly on eyewitnesses and surveillance digicam footage, that the automobile additionally had Israeli hostages in it,” the report added.

𝗜𝗔𝗙 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟳— 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲

Air Drive investigation finds gunship fired at automobile carrying each terrorists & hostages, with surveillance programs unable to differentiate between them killing Efrat Katz,68. pic.twitter.com/DSyABRjEyd

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The findings had been shared with the lady’s household on Friday, in accordance with the assertion.

The Israeli military stated the probe discovered that its surveillance programs couldn’t distinguish Israeli captives from Hamas members in shifting automobiles, and due to this fact the capturing was “outlined as capturing at a automobile with terrorists.”

This is without doubt one of the outcomes of a sequence of inner investigations carried out by the Israeli military. “The probes shall be specializing in a timeframe from the March 2018 Hamas-led Gaza border riots till October 10, 2023,” in accordance with the Israeli paper. 

Hannibal Directive

‘Hannibal Directive’ is the title of a controversial process utilized by the Israeli military to forestall, at any price the seize of troopers by enemy forces. 

The directive, in accordance with Eyal Weizmann, the founding father of Forensic Structure, dictates that “the kidnapping have to be stopped by all means, even on the worth of placing and harming our personal forces”.

Based on testimonies by Israeli settlers within the Israel-Gaza border area, the Israeli army had killed a lot of its personal residents as if to forestall the Resistance from taking them as hostages.

These experiences even made their approach to the Israeli media. 

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Yasmin Porat, a survivor from the Kibbutz Be’eri, close to the fence separating Gaza from Israel, stated in an interview with Israeli Radio that Israeli forces “undoubtedly” killed a lot of Israeli civilians following the Hamas operation on October 7.

“They eradicated everybody, together with the hostages,” she instructed Israeli radio. “There was very, very heavy crossfire and even tank shelling.”

Gaza Genocide

At present on trial earlier than the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice for genocide towards Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating battle on Gaza.

Based on Gaza’s Ministry of Well being, 33,173 Palestinians have been killed, and 75,815 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza beginning on October 7.

Furthermore, not less than 7,000 individuals are unaccounted for, presumed useless beneath the rubble of their properties all through the Strip. 

Palestinian and worldwide organizations say that almost all of these killed and wounded are girls and kids.

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The Israeli aggression has additionally resulted within the forceful displacement of almost two million folks from everywhere in the Gaza Strip, with the overwhelming majority of the displaced compelled into the densely crowded southern metropolis of Rafah close to the border with Egypt – in what has develop into Palestine’s largest mass exodus for the reason that 1948 Nakba. 

Israel says that 1,200 troopers and civilians had been killed throughout the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media revealed experiences suggesting that many Israelis had been killed on that day by ‘pleasant hearth.’ 

(The Palestine Chronicle)