Just when you didn’t think you could be more shocked by what Israel is doing to Palestinians comes this extraordinary scoop from Haaretz that the IDF shot their own civilians to prevent them from being taken hostage, the indomitable Caitlin Johnstone breaks it down…
A new report from the Israeli outlet Haaretz titled “IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7 to Prevent Hamas Taking Soldiers Captive” confirms what independent outlets like The Grayzone and Electronic Intifada have been getting smeared as antisemitic conspiracy theorists for saying this entire time: that many of the Israeli deaths on October 7 were the result of an IDF policy of deliberately firing on their own people to prevent them from being taken hostage by Hamas.
Citing a “very senior IDF source,” Haaretz reports that Israeli troops responding to the Hamas attack were told “Not a single vehicle can return to Gaza,” and that “it was entirely clear what that message meant, and what the fate of some of the kidnapped people would be.”
This acknowledgement flies in the face of everything the imperial media and western officials have been saying since October about these claims. Just last month State Department spokesman Matthew Miller acted as though journalist Sam Husseini was a raving lunatic for asking about the possible implementation of the Hannibal Directive on October 7. The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal notes that he was actually smeared as a “manipulator” by Haaretz itself back in November for his reporting on the evidence of IDF fire being behind many deaths during the attack.
…they shot their own people???
I don’t even know what to say any more.
If your self defence requires this level of violence, perhaps you are not as righteous as you claim, perhaps you are the problem?
It’s ok Martyn. They might have aimed at the Israeli civilians but, true to form, they no doubt missed and hit Palestinian civilians instead.
The controlled regime media like Radio New Zealand and TVNZ have been covering this up since…. October of last year. This has been part of their systematic campaign to support the genocide of the Palestinian people.
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/
There has never been any evidence that the Palestinian military tried to kill anyone in their breakout from the Gaza concentration camp, let alone 1,300 or five million dead babies or whatever the congenital liars are claiming at the moment and the rats in the controlled media are reporting. It would rather have defeated their mission of arresting ‘israeli’ terrorists to ransom back the Palestinian hostages illegally kidnapped by the zionists.
“There has never been any evidence that the Palestinian military tried to kill anyone in their breakout from the Gaza concentration camp” – Are you taking the piss or what?
What was the point of breaking through the border fencing – Hama’s had heard that there was a new falafel place on the other side that they just had to try?
Cope more. The legitimate human owners of Palestine have every right to be anywhere in Palestine- which includes anywhere in ‘israel’- and to arrest zionist terrorists squatting anywhere on their land.
Hannibal Directive:
“The directive allows soldiers to use potentially massive amounts of force to prevent a soldier from falling into the hands of the enemy. This includes the possibility of endangering the life of the soldier in question in order to prevent his capture.
“Some officers, however, understand the order to mean that soldiers ought to deliberately kill their comrade in order to stop him from being taken prisoner, not that they may accidentally injure or kill him in their attempt.”
Created to avoid:
“In 2006, Hamas seized Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. After five years in captivity, he was released in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.”
Easy for our to pass judgement but then again we don’t live with the constant threat of terrorists on our doorstep + being literally surround by hostile Muslim countries who have frequently tried to wipe you off the map.
They may want to “wipe [Israel] off the map” and are hostile to Jews in the area simply because of Jewish behaviour for the last 100 years, which is mass ethnic cleansing of native majorities and the theft of their land to fulfil the Zionist dream of a Jewish ethnostate. Oh, and now they have walled them in to a small area for the last 20 years and completely control what and who comes in and out.
That said, we just don’t know what the problem the Arabs have with the Jews is: probably just the old “irrational antisemitism” that seems to follow Jews around wherever they go.
Think you will find that Muslims have been generally hostile to the resident Jewish population since the Islamic conquest of Palestine in the 7th century . . which is a period a little longer than your 100 years.
As usual, James tries to pretend that Muslims have been ‘hostile’ to people, while ignoring the actual historical reality of foreign invaders murdering Christians and Muslims alike. What is being done to the people of Gaza- Muslim and Christian alike- today is no different from what alien invaders did to Christians in the Mamilla Pool massacre when they invaded Jerusalem in 614 AD.
Hilarious when you zionist aliens try to justify yourselves.
Yes, how horrifying that a terrorist legitimately arrested by the Palestinian military would be exchanged for thousands of innocent human beings that you monsters love to rape and torture in your dungeons.
This might come as a surprise to you Mo but not everyone has a dungeon myself included.
Nobody told them to build their nation on someone else’s land by killing and displacing the indigenous population from their lands and livelihoods similar to pakeha claiming this country as their own by displacing the locals. The Israelis makeup similar stories pakeha makeup to disenfranchise Maori as indigenous. Remember “Winston Peters” claims that Maori aren’t indigenous!!! The same is said about the Indigenous Palestinians claiming that “Jews are a race” meme its all the same BS
“Remember “Winston Peters” claims that Maori aren’t indigenous”
To be honest he probably just made it up to piss all the self-appointed “Maori Master race”* off . .
*In an interview with TVNZ on Sunday, Rawiri Waititi, co-leader of Te Pāti Māori (TPM, the Māori Party) defended the blatantly racist statement: “It is a known fact that Māori genetic makeup is stronger than others.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/13/kbwu-s13.html
You only had to look at the images of the many completely destroyed and burnt out cars and the buildings that had sustained damage from heavy arms from tanks and helicopter gunships (as opposed to the much lighter arms used by Hamas) to know that it was only a matter of time before the Israelis use of the “Hannibal Directive” against not only IDF personnel but also Israeli civilian hostages came to light.
Consider that their subsequent invasion and destruction of Gaza, and the falling into line of Western leaders, the crackdown on free speech and assembly to protest in the US etc., was all predicated on the “slaughter of Israelis on Oct 7th”when it turns out that Israelis themselves participated in the killing of Israelis.
The Jews have always used lies and atrocity propaganda for political reasons and to gain public sympathy, but this time they’ve been caught with their hands in the cookie jar. As a consequence, these revelations naturally call a whole lot of other Jewish narratives into question.
Just as I predicted when Oct 7th happened that apartheid Israel was going to kill there own civilians (Hannibal Directive) so as not to repeat the Gaza kidnapping of the IDF soldier “Gilad Shalit” Hamas held him captive for over five years until his release on 18 October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal. Gilad Shalit was eventually released in a negotiated agreement, securing his freedom after more than five years in isolation and captivity. In exchange for one IDF, 1,027 Palestinian prisoners were released.
Apartheid Israel doesn’t want those types of prisoner exchanges but I believe they’ve bitten off more than they can chew because they boosted about “wiping out Hamas” 8 months later Hamas still going strong and they’re getting pummelled in the North of Israel by Hezbollah who are more capable than Hamas. I believe we are seeing the end of the state of apartheid Israel and I have no qualms nor sympathise with her demise in fact I welcome it.
Free Palestine
yes I wish they would hurry up and wipe them out they are a curse on the world with their genocide .
Hate to burst your bubble Gordon but the local Muslims have been trying that for some time now and whenever they come up against the IDF they get their arses handed to them.
“From the river to the sea” is apparently antisemitic but somehow appears in the Likud charter this is one of the first lies of many.
“A land for a people for a people without land” was the also first of many, Israel is a illegal entity under international law with no clearly defined borders simply because Israel has not finished stealing other peoples land.
YouTube has marvelous videos of Palestine dating back to the 1900s documenting their rich history and culture.
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