The Israeli Broadcasting Authority (KAN) aired audio late Sunday of two of three Israeli captives in Gaza who were accidentally killed by the Israeli army in December last year as they pleaded to be rescued.

In the recording, one of the captives, Alon Shamriz, can be heard shouting: “Help!...Help! We are by the stairs, under the stairs! Under the stairs! Please help!”

The army obtained the recording from a GoPro camera that was mounted on a dog from its Oketz canine unit that had been sent to the location of the captives, KAN reported.

On December 18 last year, the Israeli army announced the “accidental” killing of three hostages being detained by Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip as the captives were “mistakenly identified” as a “threat” and killed, Turkey’s Anadolu reported. 

They were Yotam Haim, 28, Alon Shamriz, 26, and Samer Talalka, 22.

On Friday, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, announced that seven Israeli captives in their custody had been killed in an attack by the Israeli army, raising the total number of hostages in Gaza killed by Israeli army fire to 70.