Haaretz has yet to admit it jumped the gun when it dismissed The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ for documenting crucial evidence that Israeli forces killed Israelis on October 7. But new reports by the same outlet show we were right all along. Israeli outlet Haaretz has acknowledged a police report confirmed partygoers at a festival three miles from the Gaza border were killed by the Israeli military on October 7, just two weeks after the publication accused […]
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    153·
    1 year ago

    The finding should come as little surprise to the liberal Israeli publication. On November 9, Haaretz released an audio interview with Israeli reserve pilot Col. Nof Erez, who said the Netanyahu administration likely invoked the notorious Hannibal Directive, which dictates that Israelis taken captive should be killed by the military rather than left in the hands of Palestinian militants.

    “Hannibal Directive was probably deployed because once you detect a hostage situation, this is Hannibal,” Erez told the outlet in a recording published November 9.

    "What we saw here was a mass Hannibal,” the pilot concludes.

    That sounds a little too unbelievable…

    Apparently it was/is a real thing, but only applied to soldiers, not civilian hostages.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive

    Still terrible, and IDF still killed the people they were trying to save, but I highly doubt they were intentionally killing them.

    • zerfuffle@lemmy.ml
      61·
      1 year ago

      Intent doesn’t really matter when you have an Apache helicopter with large munitions lol