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Israeli troops were ordered to shoot and kill captive Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023, Israel’s then defence minister admitted this week. The order to carry out Israel’s so-called Hannibal Directive was issued “tactically” and “in various places” next to Gaza, Yoav Gallant told Israel’s Channel 12 on Thursday. “In other places it was not given, and that is a problem,” he continued.
Contrary to Gallant’s statement that the Hannibal Directive was unevenly applied in different areas, Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported in January 2024 that at midday on 7 October, an unambiguous order was given from the high command of the Israeli military to invoke the Hannibal Directive across the entire region.
In July, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the order “not a single vehicle can return to Gaza” was issued to the Gaza Division of the Israeli military at 11:22 am that day. But Gallant’s new statement is highly significant, as the first public admission by a contemporary Israeli minister that their troops were ordered to fire on their own people on 7 October.
Fuck the Israeli government, I’m sure this policy has nothing to do with mercy nor information, however, it is not an uncommon tactic when captivity likely includes interrogation and/or torture.
Hamas has always been pretty good to their captives. As recently proven once again recently by none of the captives saying they were tortured.
If any Israelis were tortured we would be guaranteed to read the stories on the front page of every big newspaper. Unlike the Palestinians whose actual torture gets completely buried by the news.
It’s not like IDF soldiers hold much special knowledge. They simply become pawns to be traded for Palestinian prisoners.
Not sure how much I believe this. We’ll have to hear from the captives themselves.
There are plenty of stories of released captives. They are all much of the same. During the captive taking it was rough and they were often hurt. But once they were in captivity it was mostly boring.
Democracy Now: https://youtu.be/rzGd92axe_o
Their biggest fear was getting killed by Israeli bombs. And the injuries they sustained during captivity were by Israeli bombs.
It’s really just the israeli people at this point.
All of them have the capacity to leave, but they choose not to. It’s not cheap living in Israel.
Children don’t have the ability to leave.
Their parents do.
Kids aren’t their parents.
Are you stupid? Their parents can make the decision to leave and take their kids with them.
How dumb do you have to be to believe anyone is blaming children for any of this?
Pretty much all Israelis can get citizenship in the country their grandparents came from.
Irrelevant to my point. If you’re a minor in Israel, you don’t have many options to move out until you’re an adult.
Where are you getting this idea? Only about 10% have dual-citizenship. Who’s going to absorb the other 90%? And most probably aren’t wealthy enough to simply pick up their lives and leave.
The US has plenty of room. You can fit 11 Israels in Wyoming.