"They're all without shirts and they have a stick with a white cloth on it. The soldier feels threatened and opens fire. He declares that they're terrorists. They (the Israeli forces) open fire. Two (hostages) are killed immediately," the official told reporters in a phone briefing.

The third hostage was wounded and retreated into a nearby building where he called for help in Hebrew, the official said.

"Immediately the battalion commander issues a ceasefire order, but again there's another burst of fire towards the third figure and he also dies," the official said. "This was against our rules of engagement," he added.

But remember, not a genocide.

Probably standard IDF practice considering they've been doing this to Palestinian civilians since they entered Gaza.

"they have a stick with a white cloth on it. The soldier feels threatened"

So many pieces of news just establish that the IDF is full of pussies. "He's waving a white flag.... WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!! TAKE HIM OUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD"

In a war situation like that, how possibly can one appear less threatening than being unarmed, mostly unclothed with a flag of surrender?

The IDF literally killed the people they were purportedly trying to save...

If this is how they treat hostages on their side, how can I believe that they aren't indiscriminately killing civilians?

Their only mistake here was shooting the guy who spoke Hebrew. Everything else is just Tuesday for the IDF.

"They're all without shirts and they have a stick with a white cloth on it. The soldier feels threatened and opens fire. He declares that they're terrorists. They (the Israeli forces) open fire. Two (hostages) are killed immediately," the official told reporters in a phone briefing.

As if this wasn't ridiculous enough, it gets better

"Immediately the battalion commander issues a ceasefire order, but again there's another burst of fire towards the third figure and he also dies," the official said. "This was against our rules of engagement," he added.

So, to summarize: unarmed civilians waving a white flag were categorized as terrorists and two of them get executed immediately. The battalion commander then directly orders the soldiers to stop firing but those orders are being disobeyed and the last of the group is executed anyway.

That is not feeling "threatened". That is bloodlust.

These are the people our world leaders support. Make it extremely uncomfortable for them to continue doing so, or they'll get inspired.