Zionists Killing Zionists According to Zionists — A List of 17 Instances
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Last updated on Mar 28, 2024
The following is a list of Zionist sources admitting that Israeli forces killed Israelis in occupied Palestine on Oct 7, 2023, or after, whether by accident or execution of its Hannibal Directive (a directive to prevent Israelis from being taken hostage at all costs, even death). Instances where only Resistance fighters—and not Zionists—make such a claim have been excluded.
A very large portion of this work is indebted to the work and findings of the Electronic Intifada, the Grayzone, Mondoweiss, Uncaptured Media and X user Arnaud Bertrand.
As this project strives for exactitude and exhaustivity, please contact Informed Leftist for any errors or findings.
1. | Oct 7, 2023, “the area between the Otaf settlements and the Gaza Strip”: an unknown number The IOF gave “the order [to] prevent terrorists from returning to Gaza ‘at all costs,’ even if they have hostages with them,” including “all vehicles returning to Gaza.” “70 vehicles … in the area between the Otaf settlements and the Gaza Strip. … did not reach Gaza, because on the way they were shot by a combat helicopter, an anti-tank missile or a tank, and at least in some cases everyone in the vehicle was killed.” Source
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2. | Oct 7, 2023, at 11:30: the area between the Gaza border and Kibbutz Nir Oz: 1 Israeli An IOF combat helicopter opened “a volley of fire”1 on a tuk tuk driven by Resistance fighters pulling a flatbed about 150 metres before the Gaza border from Kibbutz Nir Oz, killing the Resistance fighters, hostage Efrat Katz, and injuring the remaining 8 hostages on board.1,2 All hostages were recaptured shortly after by the Resistance and brought to Gaza, save 1 (Neomit Dekel-Chen), who pretended to be dead.1 Hostage Doron Katz-Asher says that “[she] was somewhat relieved that [she and the other hostages] arrived alive [in Gaza].”2 Sources 1 Shani Goren’s interview with Channel 12 (archive) on Feb 15, 2024. Translation by the Electronic Intifada (archive). Also available on YouTube with translation. 2 Doron Katz-Asher’s interview with Channel 12 (archive) on Feb 15, 2024. Translation by the Uncaptured Media (archive).
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3. | Oct 7, 2023, Pessi Cohen’s house in kibbutz Be’eri: 12 hostages The IOF, refusing to let Resistance fighters leave with Israeli hostages to Gaza,1,2,3,4 unleashed very heavy gunfire on Pessi Cohen’s “small kibbutz house,”1,2,3 with bullets entering “in every possible way,”3 “undoubtedly”1 “eliminat[ing] everyone, including the hostages.”1 The IOF ultimately fired 2 tank shells at the house1,2,3,4,5,6 “even at the cost of civilian casualties.”4,5,6 Everyone in the house—around 40 Resistance fighters1,2,3 and 12 Israeli hostages,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 namely Suheib Abu Amer,8 Pessi Cohen, Hanna Cohen, Tal Siton, Hava Ben Ami, Liel Hetzroni, Yanai Hetzroni, Ayala "Aylus" Hetzroni, Zehava Hacker, Ze'ev Hacker, Tal Katz and Adi Dagan—died, except for one Israeli hostage (Hadas Dagan).1,2,3,4,5,6 Despite the demands of the families of the victims,3,6 Israel has yet to initiate an investigation. The IOF general who ordered the 2 tank shells also later lied about it.9 Sources 2 Hostage Yasmin Porat’s second interview on Kan 11. Translation by the Electronic Intifada (archive). 3 Channel 12 (archive) on Dec 9, 2023. Translation by Uncaptured Media (archive). Transcription by Informed Leftist (archive). Note that Channel 12 removed Yasmin Porat’s comment about the Resistance fighters hiding with the hostages when the IOF first opened fire, which remains in the other 2 sources. 4 The New York Times (archive) on Dec 23, 2023. 5 The Times of Israel (archive) on Dec 23, 2023. 8 South First Responders (archive) on Oct 31, 2023. 9 The Electronic Intifada (archive) on Dec 24, 2023.
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4. | Oct 7–9, 2023, Kibbutz Be’eri: an unknown number Inside the kibbutz on October 7, “[e]very minute a missile [from an IOF Apache helicopter] [came] down on you, every minute.”1 Meanwhile, the IOF also “fought inside kibbutz Be’eri, from house to house with the tanks.”2 “[O]nly on Monday night [October 9] and only after the [IOF] commanders in the field made difficult decisions—including shelling houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages—did the IDF complete the takeover of the kibbutz.“3 Indeed, “building after building [had] been destroyed, whether in the Hamas assault or in the fighting that followed, nearby trees splintered and walls reduced to concrete rubble from where Israeli tanks blasted the Hamas militants where they were hiding. Floors collapsed on floors. Roof beams were tangled and exposed like rib cages.”4 An estimated 130 Israelis were killed in Kibbutz Be’eri.5 It is unclear how many of them were killed by IOF fire, as Israel has yet to initiate any type of investigation. Sources 2 The interview of Erez, a deputy commander of an armoured reserve battalion in the IOF, published in the Haaretz (archive) on Oct 11, 2023. Translation by Chrome. 3 Be’eri resident Tovel Escapa’s interview in the Haaretz (archive) on Oct 20, 2023. Translation by Chrome. Note that the outlet later edited Escapa’s testimony to falsely say that the IOF did not know whether there were Israeli hostages alive in the houses it shelled. The original version is still available in the archived link. 4 The Guardian (archive) on Oct 11, 2023.
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5. | Oct 7, 2023, Nova music festival: an unknown number “According to a police source, the investigation also indicates that an IDF combat helicopter that arrived to the scene and fired at terrorists there apparently also hit some festival participants”1 at the Nova music festival, where 364 people died.2 Sources 2 The Jerusalem Post (archive) on Jan 27, 2024.
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6. | Oct 7, 2023, Kibbutz Alumim: 1 Israeli After escaping the attack on the Nova music festival and later an attack on a bomb shelter near Kibbutz Alumim’s, Ofek Atun and his girlfriend Tamar broke into a house inside the kibbutz, where the two elderly residents, hiding in their safe room, called for help. A soldier, thinking the two intruders were Resistance fighters, then entered the house and shot and killed Atun. His girlfriend exited the house and was “shot in the stomach by Israel forces,” but survived. Source
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7. | NEW Oct 7, 2023, “Kisufim area”: an unknown number Captain Bar Zonshein with his tank crew “used the Hannibal procedure” by “fir[ing] at two Hamas vehicles [“two passenger vans, Toyotas, with a large number of people standing inside the cabin and a pile of people”] that were on their way back to the [Gaza] Strip with soldiers or bodies that were taken captive,” deciding that it was “better to stop the kidnapping and that they not be taken.” Israel has yet to initiate any type of investigation. Note The Resistance, thinking Neomit Dekel-Chen was dead, left her behind in Instance 2 of this list, which makes Zonshein’s suggestion that some of the hostages in the two vehicles were already dead unlikely. Source
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8. | Oct 7, 2023, a checkpoint near Moshav Mavki'im: 1 Israeli Israeli police at a checkpoint “immediately shot” Adi Ohana as he approached in his car, killing him. Source
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9. | Oct 8, 2023, Route 4, near Nitzan: 1 Israeli “… Niv Ayos was killed by IDF fire while driving on Route 4 on his way to one of the army bases, after being identified by IDF soldiers as a terrorist.” Source
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10. | Oct 14, 2023, village of Imtin: 1 IOF captain Captain Jacob Nedlin “was hit in a crossfire while pursuing suspects throwing rocks at security vehicles.” Source Israel National News (archive) on Oct 14, 2024.
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11. | Oct 29, 2023, Northern Isreal: 1 IOF sergeant Apparently during a training operation, Yinon Fleischman “was killed … as the result of a tank overturning near Israel’s northern border with Lebanon.” Source Yeshiva World News (archive) on Oct 30, 2024.
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12. | Nov 26, 2023, a tunnel in Jabalya: 3–5 hostages Despite knowing that Israeli hostages have been kept in the Resistance’s tunnel network,1 the IOF conducted an airstrike with bombs that released “toxic gases”2 on a tunnel where there were Resistance fighters3,4 and 5 Israeli hostages (Ron Sherman, Nick Beiser and Elia Toledano2,4,5 ; and Aden Zakaria and Ziv Dado4 ). The IOF’s “detailed [autopsy] report”5 of Sherman’s body “didn’t find any injuries”5,6,7 and suggested death by suffocation or poisonous gas.2,5,6,7 “Rescue team members who stayed in the tunnel for several days told [the mother of] Beiser that there was oxygen there, so the possibility that the 3 [Sherman, Beiser and Toledano] died from lack of oxygen seems less realistic. … [T]he 551 unit brigade that recovered the bodies … told [Beiser] that her son was apparently killed as a result of inhaling toxic gases.”2 This conclusion was later confirmed by IOF Major General Nitzan Alon.2 Zakaria and Dado’s bodies were recovered by the IOF around the same time and “from the same area.”4 Sources 2 Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehinom (archive) on Feb 21, 2024. Translation by Chrome. 3 The Times of Israel (archive) on Nov 26, 2023. 4 The Jerusalem Post (archive) on Nov 17, 2023. 6 Noa Limone and Maayan Sherman’s joint Facebook post (archive) on Jan 25, 2024. 7 Maayan Sherman’s Facebook post (archive) on Jan 16, 2024.
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13. | Oct 27 to Dec 12, 2023, Gaza: at least 20 IOF soldiers “At least 20 soldiers were killed by friendly fire or accidents during the ground operation in the Gaza Strip, representing one fifth of all fatalities, according to data released by the IDF on Tuesday.” Source
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14. | Nov 30, 2023, Jerusalem: 1 Israeli “Yuval Doron Kestelman, … who rushed to the scene of a terror attack in Jerusalem on Thursday and killed the terrorists, was shot and killed by [IOF] soldiers who arrived on the scene after him [“convinced that he was an Arab terrorist”]. … Kestelman threw down his pistol and raised his arms, opening his jacket to show that he was not carrying an explosive device. He begged for his life and was shot anyway, when it was clear that he posed no danger.” Source
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15. | Dec 15, 2023, Shejaiya neighbourhood in Gaza City: 3 hostages The IOF mistakenly shot at 3 hostages, who were “shirtless, unarmed and bearing a makeshift white flag”1 killing 2 of them.2 “The third figure fled. The [IOF] commanders gave orders to hold fire in order to identify the third figure. After approximately 15 minutes, the battalion commander … gave additional orders to hold fire, calling out [to the escaped hostage] in Hebrew ‘come toward us.’ The figure emerged from a building toward the forces. Two soldiers, who did not hear the order …, shot at and killed the third hostage.”2 Sources 1 The New York Times (archive) on December 16, 2023. 2 IOF press release (archive) on December 28, 2023.
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16. | The night between Jan 10 and 11, 2024, a “train building” in Nuseirat refugee camp: 1–2 hostages The IOF’s air force “dropped a heavy bomb” on a “train building” in Nuseirat refugee camp, where hostages Yossi Sharaba, Noa Argamani and Itay Sabirsky were being held, “even though it had early intelligence information that hostages were being held there,” killing Sharaba.1 The Resistance says the bomb also killed Sabirsky, whereas the IOF outright denies bombing the location.2 Sources 1 Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehinom (archive) on Feb 21, 2024. Translation by Google Translate.
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17. | Mar 21, 2024, Elazar junction outside Jerusalem: 1 Jewish Palestinian “At the bus stop at the Elazar junction [on March 21, 2024] soldiers suspected [Sameh Zeitoun, a Jewish Palestinian whose Hebrew name was David Ben Avraham], shot him and wounded him. A small knife was found in the bag (which he always carried for self-defense, but never used). After a short time, he died of his wounds.” Source Arutz Sheva (archive) on March 21, 2024. Translation by Chrome.
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18. | General admissions of use of the Hannibal Directive One of the revelations revealed in the investigation is that at midnight on October 7, the IDF ordered all of its combat units in practice to use the "Hannibal Procedure", although without clearly mentioning this explicit name. The order was to stop “at all costs” any attempt by Hamas terrorists to return to Gaza , that is, despite the fear that some of them have abductees. This was a mass Hannibal. There were tons and tons of openings in the fence, and thousands of people in every type of vehicle, some with hostages and some without. Lt. Col. Nof Erez on a Haaretz podcast on Nov 9, 2023. Translation and host by the Electronic Intifada. Casualties fell as a result of friendly fire on October 7, but the IDF believes that beyond the operational investigations of the events, it would not be morally sound to investigate these incidents due to the immense and complex quantity of them that took place in the kibbutzim and southern Israeli communities due to the challenging situations the soldiers were in at the time. |
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