Civilian hostages in Hamas custody killed in Be'eri near Gaza border, CNN verified videos show

[Eugene]

Source: Civilian hostages in Hamas custody killed in Be’eri near Gaza border, CNN verified videos show

By Paul P. Murphy, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Kathleen Magramo, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 10:25 AM EDT, Tue October 17, 2023

(CNN) — At least four civilians were killed while in the custody of Hamas, just feet from where armed militants had been escorting them near the Gaza border, videos obtained and geolocated by CNN show.

One video from the kibbutz of Be’eri in southern Israel showed armed fighters with burned cars and a bulldozer in the background. Toward the end of the video, which was released on a Hamas-affiliated Telegram channel, four bodies can be seen on the ground.

Another video previously geolocated by CNN showed five Israeli civilians taken captive by armed militants in nearly the same spot.

A CNN analysis of the videos determined that the bodies, and the individuals being escorted by heavily armed militants, had matching clothes and hairstyles.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/09/middleeast/israel-gaza-hamas-beeri-hostages-killed-intl-hnk/index.html

[JohnSJ]

1. Terrible, and should not have happened. Then again, hostages should NEVER have been taken, and

with all the "rhetoric" about Israeli war crimes, it should not be ignored that taking hostages and targeting civilians by Hamas is also a war crime.