A protester with pink paint on his hand marches by way of the streets after demonstrating outdoors the Israel Defense Forces headquarters on Friday in Tel Aviv, Israel. Earlier, the IDF had stated its forces unintentionally killed three hostages being held in Gaza when it mistakenly recognized them as potential threats.

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A protester with pink paint on his hand marches by way of the streets after demonstrating outdoors the Israel Defense Forces headquarters on Friday in Tel Aviv, Israel. Earlier, the IDF had stated its forces unintentionally killed three hostages being held in Gaza when it mistakenly recognized them as potential threats.

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TEL AVIV, Israel — An investigation into the killing of three hostages held by Hamas in Gaza has discovered that the captives have been shirtless and waving a white flag as Israel troopers fired on them.

The preliminary report Saturday by the Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, stated the hostages had managed to evade their captors within the northern Gaza neighborhood of Shijaiyah earlier than they have been “mistakenly identified” as they exited a constructing on Friday. They have been then shot by an Israeli soldier.

Two have been killed instantly and one other was wounded and ran again into the constructing, an Israeli official stated in a briefing on Saturday. Soldiers then heard a cry for assist in Hebrew. The soldier’s battalion commander ordered the firing to cease. The third hostage later died of his wounds.

Last month, Hamas released more than 100 hostages in a seven-day truce in change for about 300 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held by Israel. The three captives killed on Friday have been among the many greater than 100 hostages believed still held by the Palestinian militant group.

The preliminary report concluded that the troopers concerned within the unintended taking pictures didn’t observe the IDF’s personal guidelines of engagement. The hostages had been wearing civilian garments and waving a white flag earlier than they have been shot by a soldier who felt below menace, the navy official stated.

Hamas militants put on civilian garments to deceive the navy, the official stated.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to as the deaths of the three captives — Yotam Haim, Samer Fuad El-Talalka and Alon Shamriz, all of their 20s — an “unbearable tragedy.”

Families of the hostages have stored up public stress on Netanyahu’s authorities, calling for Israel’s first precedence to be their secure return, and never the navy operation to eradicate Hamas. Adding to that stress in latest weeks, captives who have been launched throughout final month’s cease-fire have been speaking publicly about their time in captivity.

Shortly after the information of the deaths broke Friday night, a bunch of individuals gathered in central Tel Aviv and marched by way of the town’s streets at evening, calling out to others to get up and be part of them.

Among them was Adam Yekutieli, 37, an artist, who stated the deaths of the three hostages bolstered for him that Israel wants to barter one other cease-fire to free extra of the captives.

“There’s no military solution to this situation,” he stated. “Israel is bombing its way into a corner that it won’t be able to get out of.”

However, Ela Vinokur, 38, stated a brand new hostage change deal ought to be the precedence. “We have to make a deal,” she stated. “Only diplomacy will work. And we need to start with saving lives first.”