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Friday, March 22, 2024
Blaming ‘human error,’ IDF says not everyone featured in image of captured terror operatives has been caught yet
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
After the IDF published a photo collage yesterday showing what it said were captured terror operatives at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, including senior Hamas commander Raad Saad, the military and Shin Bet say that due to “human error,” some of the men in the pictures have not yet been caught.
The IDF and Shin bet also deny that the graphic was an attempt at “psychological warfare.”
“Due to human error, there are several photos in the graphic of terrorists who have not yet been caught but are, according to the information we have, in the area of the hospital and are holed up there,” a joint statement says.
The IDF says it will provide the identities of all those it has captured once the operation at Shifa is over.
