Hostage Deaths and Military Actions
What happened to these 40 hostages?
What happened to them? I would like to know too.
Five died in captivity from their wounds or due to a lack of care.
How did they get hurt? By whom?
Including Oded Lifshitz, an 83-year-old journalist
and peace activist.
11 were killed by Israeli strikes or ground operations.
Hmm.
Including these three young men who were shot dead by Israeli ground troops
who mistook them for Palestinians.
IDF mistook them as Palestinians.
Huh.
Nearly half of the hostages were killed by their captors,
according to the
Israeli military and for-
According to the Israeli military. Where's the proof?
Oh, you haven't even investigated for nearly
three years.
Nine-month-old Kfir and four-year-old Ariel
were killed by their captors',
quote, "Bare hands."
Did you know their forensic findings were sent to their global partners
to verify the cause of death? They never announced their findings.
They never made it a public documentations.
Not even their family have received it.
The cause of death of eight others is still unconfirmed, including these six
hostages who were killed in a tunnel in Khan Yunis following an Israeli strike
nearby.
The cause of their death is unclear, except there was an Israeli
strike nearby. Hmm,
that makes it very unclear, does it?
They are among 24, more than half, whose deaths we traced
back to Israeli military actions.
More than half of the death traced back to Israeli's military actions.
Tell me something we didn't know. But ladies and gentlemen, this
is CNN.
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