Loading ...Top Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth confirms Israel used the “Hannibal directive” on Oct 7th, which calls to kill Israeli hostages along with their captors.
This is the exact quote from the paper: “At midnight on October 7, the IDF ordered all of its combat units in practice to use the ‘Hannibal Directive’, although without clearly mentioning this explicit name. The order was to stop ‘at all costs’ any attempt by Hamas terrorists to return to Gaza, that is despite the fear that some of them have hostages.
It is estimated that about a thousand terrorists and infiltrators were killed in the area between the Otaf settlements and the Gaza Strip. It is not clear at this time how many of the hostages were killed due to the activation of this command. In the week after the attack, soldiers of elite units checked about 70 vehicles that were left in the area between the Otaf settlements and the Gaza Strip. These are vehicles that did not reach Gaza, because on the way they were shot by a combat helicopter, an anti-tank missile or a tank, and at least in some cases everyone in the vehicle was killed.”
https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/yokra13754368
Sorry, Google translation mistake apparently: this part should read “One of the revelations exposed in the investigation is that at noon on October 7th, the IDF instructed all its combat units in the field to implement ‘Hannibal Directive’Arnaud Bertrand