Hamas: Guard killed captive against instructions after children died in Israeli strikes

The armed wing of Hamas said its internal investigation found that a guard killed an Israeli captive after his two children were killed in Israeli air strikes, acting against instructions. 

Abu Obeida, Hamas's military spokesman, said the "incident does not represent our ethics and the teachings of our religion in dealing with prisoners" and that instructions will be "tightened" around the guarding of captives. 

"After investigating the killing of an enemy prisoner by his guard, it was found that the guard acted in a vengeful manner contrary to instructions after receiving news of the martyrdom of his two children in one of the enemy's massacres," Abu Obeida said. 

"We hold the enemy fully responsible for all the suffering and danger that its prisoners are exposed to as a result of violating all norms of humanitarian treatment and its brutal genocide against our people."