TEHRAN- The incident of the Israeli army shooting dead its own captives in Gaza has highlighted the regime's troops' anxiety and fear during their land offensives in the enclave. 

In the aftermath of Operation al-Aqsa Storm?, the Israeli regime's stated mission had been twofold. One was to recover the captives taken by Palestinian resistance factions on October 7, and the second was to eliminate Hamas. 
Now the very confused state of the regime's war on Gaza, which experts say lacks any political agenda? other than killing civilians, has been clear by the murder of three of its own captives who had either been released by the Palestinian resistance or escaped by themselves. 

According to the regime's military spokesman, three Israeli captives in Shejaia?, northern Gaza, emerged from a building without their shirts on and had been holding a makeshift white flag?, which is the international sign of surrender. 

Two of the captives were shot dead immediately, according to an investigation by the Israeli military. The third captive sustained an injury and fled back into a nearby building. The regime's troops then heard screams for help in Hebrew from the third Israeli captive, only for other soldiers to carry on shooting until they killed him as well. 

The captives were killed hundreds of meters from a building marked with writing reading "SOS". 

What is clear is that they posed no threat to the Israeli military. 

The killing of three captives highlights the state of hysteria and fear among the Israeli soldiers. This raises the long-held serious suspicions as to how the Israeli military has been operating in Gaza. 

After more than 77 days of the Israeli war on Gaza, the regime has been unable to get its captives out militarily. It has now killed them, triggering angry protests against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. 

Chants of "Shame", "There’s no time" and "Deal now!", the last chant being a demand for a new ceasefire agreement with Hamas and an exchange of the Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners. The protesters present a growing threat to the Israeli settler population in the way in which the Israeli war on Gaza is being executed. 

There is widespread outrage in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories amid a mounting sense of anxiety over the safety of the remaining captives held in Gaza. 

There is also disbelief in what has happened to the Israeli captives. The Israeli settler population is still trying to process this new Israeli military failure, this time against its own people. They say the captives are being left in mortal danger, and the longer the bombs keep falling, the greater the chance of more being killed.

Only through Qatari-mediated negotiations and a ceasefire, Israeli captives have been released safely.

The clear avoidable loss of life of the Israeli captives will now inevitably increase pressure on Netanyahu's war cabinet to re-focus its efforts on securing the release of the remaining captives.

It is perhaps no coincidence that a senior Mossad representative has subsequently been sent back to Doha in a bid to resume indirect negotiations with Hamas.

Hamas, however, appears unprepared to re-engage in that process at the moment, after the Israeli regime violated the last ceasefire agreement and continued to kill innocent civilians on a mass scale. 

The group said in a statement on Saturday that it will not conduct more negotiations around prisoner exchanges unless the regime stops its massacres in Gaza.

Issuing its statement on social media, Hamas said all mediators are aware of its position. 

"Hamas reaffirms its stance not to conduct any negotiations to exchange prisoners" until Israel stopped its assault on Palestinians, "once and for all," it said.

But the killing of Israeli captives, who posed no threat to the Israeli army, also raises quite an obvious conclusion.

If Palestinian civilians emerge from a building with their shirts taken off, to show they are carrying no weapons or explosive devices, and wave a white flag of surrender, Israeli troops may shoot them dead.

The incident of Israeli captives made international headlines because the regime's army killed its own people in Gaza. 

Many similar incidents of civilians emerging from buildings and shot dead by Israeli soldiers have gone unreported because the victims have been Palestinians. 

It might go some way to explain one of the reasons why the Palestinian casualty figures are rising so alarmingly and so quickly. 

Furthermore, it is quite clear now that the secretive Israeli policy is to indiscriminately kill as many Palestinian civilians as possible. 

It also highlights the state of hysteria, paranoia, and the fear of the Israeli soldiers that have invaded Gaza. 

 "Our fighters continuously observe the enemy soldiers' screams and pleas for help after each operation and their hysterical reaction of firing bullets and shells aimlessly at everything to cover up their state of terror," Abu Obeida, the military spokesman for Al-Qassam Brigades, said.

The regime has mobilized over 300,000 military personnel to serve in the war on Gaza. 

Having failed to dismantle Hamas and amid heavy Israeli military losses, on December 1, the regime appeared to revise its stated mission?, with Israeli officials repeatedly stating its army will either kill or capture the three top Hamas leaders, Mohammed Deif, Marwan Issa and Yahya Sinwar as the "smoking gun" to achieve a military victory. 

This has also proven to be a failure, as none of the three top Hamas leaders have been captured or killed. 

It is crystal clear that the Israeli military is unable to defeat the armed wing of Hamas or other Palestinian resistance factions in a tiny blockaded coastal enclave that has the military edge over what was once the most powerful military in the region. 

Abu Obeida pointed out that "over the past days?, our fighters have carried out a large number of precision ambushes against the enemy's infantry units."

"This included luring enemy forces into buildings our fighters had identified as accessible to the enemy, then detonating anti-personnel devices. And bombing these forces and attacking them with machine guns at close range."

The regime is quickly losing both its military morale and the support of the vast majority of the international community for its 10 weeks of indiscriminate attacks against Palestinian civilians. 
From the onset of the war on Gaza, the Israeli regime said it wanted to "wipe out" Hamas in Gaza. At this rate, it is the Palestinian resistance that appears to be wiping out the Israeli military forces in the enclave. 

The ratio of Israeli military personnel being killed far outweighs the ratio of Palestinian resistance members that are being killed on the battlefield.