‘What they told us today is in some ways more distressing than the initial announcement’

The Israel Defence Forces promised a full and transparent investigation on the deaths of three Gaza hostages killed when troops mistook them for a threat. “What they told us today is in some ways more distressing than the initial announcement”, said Irris Makler, FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Jerusalem, Israel. “In the Shejaiya camp, two men came out, they were not wearing shirts, they had a white flag tied to a stick and they called out in Hebrew, ‘Rescue us'”