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IDF Kills 3 Shirtless Israeli Hostages Waving White Flag; Calling for Help in Hebrew

protester with red paint on his hand marches through the streets after demonstrating outside the Israel Defense Forces

With every report it gets worse. “calling for help “In Hebrew” shot once and calling out as loudly as they could only to be shot again. Israel war for the return of hostages has lost all credibility.

Human Rights Watch reported already as far back as two decades ago (2002) that tanks in The Most Moral Army in the World ran down a wheelchair-bound Palestinian hoisting a white flag: “Fifty-seven-year-old Kamal Zghair, a wheelchair-bound man who was shot and then run over by IDF tanks on April 10 as he was moving in his wheelchair equipped with a white flag down a major road in Jenin” hrw.org/news/2002/05/0

The three hostages were identified as Yotam Haim, 28, Alon Shamriz, 26, and Samer Talalka, 25.

The three Israeli hostages who were shot and killed Friday by Israeli forces were shirtless and one of them was waving a white flag of surrender, a military official has said. Two hostages were killed immediately; the third was wounded and yelling for help in Hebrew before being shot again.

Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of DAWN, tweeted “Thousands (yes thousands) of Palestinians have described how Israel fires at unarmed people who pose no threat but only when it happens to Israelis do people believe it. We wrote a report some years ago *specifically* on the topic of Israel shooting at Gazans waving white flags.”

B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, tweeted “It is prohibited by International Humanitarian Law (and basic moral principles) to shoot people who yielded and carry a white flag, regardless whether they’re combatants or not, regardless of their nationality and religion.”

Source: IDF Kills 3 Shirtless Israeli Hostages Waving White Flag; Calling for Help in Hebrew

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Rape, ISIS, Mein Kampf and other Lies: How Israel Lost All Credibility  – CounterPunch.org

Never has Israeli propaganda failed so astoundingly and never has the mainstream media failed to shield Israel from the global anger – in fact, seething hatred – for Israel’s ugly apartheid regime. The repercussions of all of this will most certainly impact the way that history will remember the Israeli war on Gaza, which has, so far, killed, and wounded tens of thousands of innocent civilians.

A whole generation, if not more, has already built a perception of Israel as a genocidal regime and no number of future lies, Hollywood movies or Maxim Magazine spreads will ever lessen that in any way.

More importantly, this new perception is likely to compel people, not only to re-examine their views of Israel’s present and future, but of the past as well – the very foundation of the Zionist regime, itself predicated on nothing but lies.

On Saturday, November 11, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed in a press conference that Israel had killed a “terrorist” who had prevented 1,000 civilians from escaping the Shifa Hospital.

The allegations made little sense. Even by the standards of Israeli propaganda, falsifying such a piece of information while providing no context and no evidence, further contributes to the deteriorating credibility of Israel in international media and image worldwide.

Just one day earlier, an unnamed US official was cited by CNN as saying, in a diplomatic cable, “we are losing badly on the messaging battlespace”.

The diplomat was referring to American reputation in the Middle East – in fact, worldwide – which now lies in tatters due to blind American support for Israel.

Source: Rape, ISIS, Mein Kampf and other Lies: How Israel Lost All Credibility  – CounterPunch.org