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You can hear the movie rights being sold to Hollywood to make another tasteless war crime movie like Black Hawk Down.
The rescue was a PR stunt for Netanyahu. The celebration of it in Israel now stands in the way of ending the war.


Here's how Israel conducted its operation to rescue 4 hostages while reportedly killing over 270 Palestinians

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/10/middleeast/inside-israels-hostage-rescue-intl-dst/index.html



Two days after an Israeli military operation rescued four hostages being held by Hamas in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, killing more than 270 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials, new details are emerging about what was one of the most dramatic and deadly events since the war started.

The daytime rescue operation, which took weeks of planning, caught militants holding hostages in two different buildings in a densely packed civilian area off guard. It appeared to have been carried out by Israeli forces using non-military vehicles, including a white Mercedes van, according to eyewitnesses, whose accounts tallied with videos analyzed by CNN. Eyewitnesses also said that they saw Israeli forces in disguise – dressed as Hamas fighters or civilians.

“They were dressed in military uniforms like resistance fighters, carrying helmets and wearing signs of the [Hamas] resistance, giving the impression to people that they were resistance fighters, but in reality, they were an Israeli special forces unit,” Khalil Al Tirawi, a local resident, told CNN.

The Israeli military denied using civilian vehicles, but declined to say whether the officers conducting the rescue were disguised as militants or dressed as Palestinian civilians. The Israeli military had previously used civilian clothing as a tactic in its operations.

UN ‘profoundly shocked’ at civilian toll of Israel operation to free captives

The UN human rights office says civilian deaths in Gaza during the Israeli operation to release four captives held by armed groups in a densely populated area could amount to war crimes.

“We are profoundly shocked at the impact on civilians of the Israeli forces’ operation. Hundreds of Palestinians, many of them civilians, were reportedly killed and injured,” said Jeremy Laurence, spokesperson for the UN human rights office.

“Furthermore, by holding hostages in such densely populated areas, the armed groups doing so are putting the lives of Palestinian civilians, as well as the hostages themselves, at added risk from the hostilities. All these actions, by both parties, may amount to war crimes.”


I fear the lives of the rest of the hostages will only get more difficult, moved underground, isolated, in places where they can get bombed. Ceasefire can't come fast enough.

Palestinians describe Israeli killings in Gaza raid to free captives

Palestinians have accused Israeli forces of executions and mass killings during a major attack to free four Israeli captives in Nuseirat, central Gaza.

Among the 274 dead as a result of the Israeli army’s incursion were at least 64 children, 57 women and 37 elderly people, Gaza’s Health Ministry has said. Another 798 Palestinians were wounded in the Israeli raid.

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 11 June 2024