Investigation Confirms: Israeli Army’s Operations Killed Six Captives

The bodies of six captives were recovered successful Gaza. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Hamas, successful a statement, blamed Israel for the deaths of the captives, citing Israel’s ongoing genocidal battle connected Gaza and accused the US of supporting the aggression

An Israeli service probe has confirmed that its subject operations successful the Tal al-Sultan vicinity successful the confederate Gaza metropolis of Rafah successful precocious August led to the sidesplitting of six Israeli captives.

A summary of the probe issued connected Tuesday, said the army’s “ground activities successful the area, though gradual and cautious, had a circumstantial influence” connected the determination by Palestinian fighters to termination the captives.

The army’s Chief of the General Staff, Herzi Halevi, concluded the probe and presented it to the captives’ families.

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It said that “on August 15th, 2024, troops of the 162nd Division launched an cognition to decision Hamas’s al-Tel Sultan Battalion, pursuing astir 3 months of operational enactment successful Rafah.”

Occupation forces “engaged successful aggravated combat” with Hamas fighters wrong the Tal al-Sultan area, “during which they located a cardinal underground passageway system.”

The service past “integrated peculiar forces, assorted quality units, precise underground operational capabilities, and the usage of specialized instrumentality and technology, including for the imaginable determination of hostages successful the area.”

‘Low Likelihood’ of Captives Present

It was past assessed that “the likelihood” of captives being contiguous successful the country “was mean to low.”

“However, the troops were instructed to run nether the presumption that hostages were successful the country and to enactment with the indispensable caution. They conducted ongoing situational assessments connected the substance successful coordination with applicable nonrecreational officials,” the study said.

In effect to the IDF probe presented to the Goldberg-Polin, Gat, Danino, Yerushalmi, Lobanov, and Sarusi families, the Hostages Families Forum has issued the pursuing statement:

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— Bring Them Home Now (@bringhomenow) December 24, 2024

On August 27, the captive Qaid Farhan Alkadi was “found alone” and “rescued from an underground compound.” On the day of August 31, concern forces located six captives “no longer alive” successful an underground tunnel.

Hamas, successful a statement, blamed Israel for the deaths of the captives, citing Israel’s ongoing genocidal battle connected Gaza and accused the US of supporting the aggression.

According to an anonymous Israeli official cited by the Israeli quality website Ynet, 3 of the captives whose bodies were listed to beryllium retrieved arsenic portion of the ceasefire statement of July 2.

Collapse of Negotiations

In effect to the investigation’s findings, a radical representing families of captives said it was wide that a woody was cardinal to the merchandise of the remaining captives.

“The probe published contiguous proves erstwhile again that the instrumentality of each hostages volition lone beryllium imaginable done a deal,” the Hostages Families Forum said, according to the Bring Them Home Now X page.

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The Committee said that the six captives “should person returned location alive.”

Israel estimates that determination are 101 Israeli captives held successful Gaza, portion Hamas says that 33 captives person been killed successful indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes successful the besieged enclave, according to the Anadolu quality agency.

Ongoing Genocide

Meanwhile, the Israeli genocide successful the Gaza Strip continued with the decease toll among starved and besieged Palestinian civilians rising daily.

Currently connected proceedings earlier the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating warfare connected Gaza since October 7, 2023.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 45,338 Palestinians person been killed, and 107,764 wounded successful Israel’s ongoing genocide successful Gaza starting connected October 7, 2023.

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Moreover, astatine slightest 11,000 radical are unaccounted for, presumed dormant nether the rubble of their homes passim the Strip.

Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation connected October 7. However, Israeli media published reports suggesting that galore Israelis were killed connected that time by ‘friendly fire’.

Millions Displaced

Palestinian and planetary organizations accidental that the bulk of those killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli warfare has resulted successful an acute famine resulting successful the decease of galore Palestinians, mostly children.

The Israeli aggression has besides resulted successful the forceful displacement of astir 2 cardinal radical from each implicit the Gaza Strip, with the immense bulk of the displaced forced into the densely crowded confederate region.

(The Palestine Chronicle)