‘People make mistakes’: Douglas Murray on hostages killed by IDF forces

Author Douglas Murray has expressed sympathy for the Israeli soldiers who made the “life-changing mistake” of shooting three hostages in Gaza. A preliminary report into the deaths of Yotam Haim, 28, Samer Talalka, 25, and Alon Shamriz, 26, suggested the men had removed their shirts to show IDF forces they were not armed or wearing suicide vests. It also found the three emerged from a building "tens of metres" away from the Israeli soldiers carrying a stick bearing white cloth - an improvised white flag. “It’s hardly as if they would have wanted to have done that,” Mr Murray told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan. “What this demonstrates is in this incredibly close conflict in a heavily built-up area, people coming out from all sides firing, shooting detonating – people make mistakes. “That is just the human reality of war as horrible as it is. I don’t think it shows in any way that Israel is prosecuting this war wrongly.”