Kriszta Satori on Nostr: Then soldiers heard a cry for help in Hebrew, "and immediately the battalion ...

Then soldiers heard a cry for help in Hebrew, "and immediately the battalion commander issued a ceasefire order", the official adds.

After a cry for help was heard from the third injured hostage, an IDF official says soldiers opened fire again and that hostage also died.

The official says the three hostages had potentially been "abandoned or escaped".

"I'll say very, very clear. This was against our rules of engagement. I repeat, it was against our rules of engagement," the IDF official says.