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Relative of Israeli captives confirms ‘3 hostages killed by Israeli fire,’ blasts military

An Israeli whose family members were held by Palestinian militants tells of friendly fire deaths and complains, “We used to think the IDF knows what it’s doing.” Meanwhile, freed captives detail “horrifying captivity trauma” from Israeli bombings.  A relative of newly-released Israeli captives has publicly accused the Israeli military of killing its own people and says Tel Aviv is blocking the victims’ families from speaking out.  In testimony delivered to Israel’s finance committee on December 3, Noam Dan, whose cousin’s […]

Israeli Soldier Killed In Training Exercise While Posing As Palestinian

Israeli forces, including soldiers disguised as Palestinians, arrest a Palestinian child in occupied Jerusalem on October 24, 2014.
An Israeli Army officer was accidentally shot and killed by one of his own troops during a training operation in which he was pretending to be a Palestinian at an Israeli military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.