#TheHannibalDirective

#TheHannibalDirective #Israel #Gaza

"Erez says that Israel used airstrikes to deliberately “explode” Israeli houses in a “Mass Hannibal” event on 7 October.

Yasmin Porat, a survivor of the bloodshed at Kibbutz Be’eri, near the boundary with Gaza, says many Israeli civilians were killed by Israeli forces.

"The Hannibal Directive is the name of a controversial procedure that was used by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces. According to one version, it says that “the kidnapping must be stopped by all means, even at the price of striking and harming our own forces.”

It was introduced in 1986, after a number of abductions of IDF soldiers in Lebanon and subsequent controversial prisoner exchanges. “By all means” was often interpreted literally, as in “an IDF soldier was ‘better dead than abducted'”.

Colonel Nof Erez told a Haaretz podcast in November, that “the Hannibal Directive was apparently applied” and that 7 October “was a mass Hannibal.”

So the so called ”Hamas” operation al-Aqsa Storm with its huge number of casualties it shatters in many pieces of a complex mosaic from which, in my opinion, emerges the view of an Israeli self-attack against itself by using and manipulating the ”controlled” terrorist opposition of Hamas... "