From what I’ve read, it seems Israeli citizens fear the Hannibal Directive (originally about killing their own soldiers rather than letting them be taken hostage) is secretly being applied to civilian hostages. It was supposed to have been retired several years ago, but there are accusations from within Israel it was implemented on Oct 7th (for the portion of people killed by the IDF), and possibly for all the Israeli hostages that have been killed so far by the IDF in separate incidents.
You know the pictures of cars an burning bodies in October 7th?
Along with the “hamas plans” pictures they published.
The paper if you read it in arabic suggest the goal is to kidnap as much people as possible and attack check points.
What I believe happens is that hamas were attempting to stopping cars with people to kidnap them by driving back to Gaza. Those who refused to stop the car get shot at. Then the IDF response was to not allow any car to return to Gaza and killing there own civilians.
From what I’ve read, it seems Israeli citizens fear the Hannibal Directive (originally about killing their own soldiers rather than letting them be taken hostage) is secretly being applied to civilian hostages. It was supposed to have been retired several years ago, but there are accusations from within Israel it was implemented on Oct 7th (for the portion of people killed by the IDF), and possibly for all the Israeli hostages that have been killed so far by the IDF in separate incidents.
You know the pictures of cars an burning bodies in October 7th?
Along with the “hamas plans” pictures they published.
The paper if you read it in arabic suggest the goal is to kidnap as much people as possible and attack check points.
What I believe happens is that hamas were attempting to stopping cars with people to kidnap them by driving back to Gaza. Those who refused to stop the car get shot at. Then the IDF response was to not allow any car to return to Gaza and killing there own civilians.
There were interviews in Israeli media with the pilots of the Apache helicopters.
They had no idea who were in the cars but blew them up anyway thinking they could be Hamas fighters.