According to a number of ** reports: A relatively serious incident occurred on the battlefield in Gaza yesterday, Israeli soldiers killed three Israeli hostages captured by Hamas during the operation.
The Israeli army then publicly stated that Israeli soldiers had violated the rules of engagement in the hostage killing. Because some of the three Israeli hostages were holding white flags.
According to the report, the Israeli army found three civilians dressed as civilians during a military operation, and one of them was still waving a white flag, but the Israeli army still thought they were Hamas elements and shot them dead.
Some analysts believe that the main reason for this tragedy is that Hamas is generally dressed as civilians when fighting with the Israeli army, and Hamas often uses a recording device for children's cries to connect to a device to hunt Israeli soldiers, so the three hostages are mistaken for Hamas elements.
This event once again shows us the cruelty of war. In the face of an opponent like Hamas, the Israeli soldiers participating in the war can be said to be under great psychological pressure, especially some soldiers who are inexperienced or undertrained, and in the face of this extreme survival pressure, they often lose their correct judgment and then cause accidental injuries.
If you think about it, it's really devastating, after all, in the fierce firefight, ordinary civilians will hide at home or other places and dare not show their heads easily, as long as they dare to come out and wander, it should be the enemy.
And in such a situation, when the soldier sees that the other party is not his own person, his first reaction must be **.
In fact, the matter of accidental injuries on the battlefield is already a common topic in military history, and generally speaking, the proportion of troops accidentally injured friendly troops on the battlefield is between 2% and 20%. And on the battlefield, the more dominant the side, the higher the proportion of allies who are accidentally injured.
For example, in World War II, the proportion of accidental injuries of the US military was 13%, and during the Gulf War in 1991, the accidental injury of the US military was as high as 24%.
In other words, in overseas wars, one out of every four American soldiers killed was killed by their own people.
In recent years, warfare has also become increasingly high-tech. Units such as the U.S. military and the Israel Defense Forces are even more technologically advanced. Their equipment and firepower are stronger, and their troops are more mobile, which makes their overall number of ** smaller and smaller, but the proportion of accidental injuries has become larger.
In the Gulf War, only 154 US troops were killed, but 35 of them were killed by friendly fire. In addition, three-quarters of the damage to US tanks and infantry fighting vehicles was accidentally blown up by friendly forces.
In other words, most of the destroyed tanks and armored vehicles of the US military were actually done by their own people.
In addition, another important reason for the relatively large proportion of accidental injuries in modern warfare is that the statistics of accidental injuries in Western armies are also more accurate and the information is more transparent.
At the time of World War II, it was generally believed that the percentage of accidental injuries was 2 percent. However, this data is not accurately investigated, so it has also been questioned by many military experts.
In fact, many military experts believe that the rate of accidental injuries in World War II should be higher than the current figures.
During the famous Normandy landings, German soldiers used to joke that the silver planes were American, the earthy yellow planes were British, and the invisible planes were German planes.
When we see a British plane, we must immediately take cover; If you see an American plane, both sides have to hide immediately, but if you see a German plane, no one needs to hide.
On the one hand, this joke is that the Germans ridicule their own air force's poor combat capability, and on the other hand, it also shows that the US Air Force firepower is too fierce, and once the bombing begins, the enemy and their own people will blow up, which shows that accidental injuries on the battlefield were a common phenomenon at that time.
Immediately after the news of the incident of Israeli soldiers accidentally injuring hostages, it triggered a wave of verbal and written criticism against the Israeli army, saying that they had killed innocent people indiscriminately.
But for those who really understand the war, this argument is clearly untenable.
In fact, the IDF had a very high rate of accidental injuries in the current war in Gaza, and before this incident, the rate of accidental injuries of the Israeli army was as high as about 20 percent, and of the 105 Israeli soldiers who had been killed, 20 were killed by their own fire.
It's just that the death of Israeli soldiers on the battlefield is due diligence and does not attract much attention, and the impact of the death of hostages is too great.
Therefore, in the case of not seeing clearly, shoot first to ensure their own safety, which is the choice of most soldiers, in this case not only civilians will be killed by mistake, but also their own comrades.
As we said earlier, the root cause of the accidental wounding of the Israeli hostages this time is because Hamas is fighting in civilian clothes. They only put on ** when they are filming promotional videos and facing **.
According to the "Geneva Convention", those who wear civilian clothing to participate in war automatically lose the protection of the conventions, and if they are captured and cannot enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war, they can even be treated as spies and shot directly.
The Geneva Conventions also stipulate that even when militias are fighting against invaders on their own soil, if they do not have time to form a regular army and do not have a uniform uniform, they must have a distinctive mark that can be recognized from a distance.
If the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is even more severe, it is a war crime to fight in civilian clothing.
Therefore, according to the above-mentioned law, every Hamas is actually a war criminal, and it is they who have taken the hostages to Gaza, which is the root cause of the hostages' deaths.
Every civilian who dies in this war is a victim of Hamas's crimes!
After the incident, the Israeli military first released the truth in a timely manner, and then said that it would conduct a rigorous and thorough investigation into the incident.
Wehrmacht spokesman Daniel. Major General Hegli has just announced that during the fighting in Shejaiya, northern Gaza, Israeli soldiers mistakenly killed three hostages who had escaped from detention as ***.
They waited 68 days and were about to be rescued only to fall under their own guns, which is tragic.
The most tragic was the third *** hostage, who fled back to the building after seeing the other two being shot. An Israeli officer came out and ordered the soldiers to stop shooting, but when the third hostage came out again, he was shot and killed by another soldier.
The Israeli military said that there were servicemen who violated army regulations. At present, these Israeli soldiers are probably going to court martial.
And the attitude of the Israeli military towards the incidents of accidental hostage also shows us the attitude that a civilized army should have in the face of its own mistakes in war.
This shows that in a democratic country, even violent institutions such as the military are subject to supervision and restraint, and even if there is a major negative event, it is necessary to maintain transparency of information.
It is believed that this incident will be properly handled, the suspects involved will be punished by law, and the truth will be given to the world and the family of the deceased.
In contrast, those *** who kill innocents indiscriminately and conceal the truth are simply not creatures of the civilized world. And those who support them, and even want to take this opportunity to wash their floors, are also in vain, these people can only be said to be humanoid creatures.
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