Haaretz confirming reports and photos around the use of the Hannibal Directive on October 7th.
I’m confused. Is this article complaining that the IDF made poor decisions that put civilians at risk during the October 7 attack? As if this is some kind of a gotcha from the Palestinians point of view? This is so incredibly detached from reality that this it is nothing short of spectacularly disturbing.
This is an Israeli publication, I don’t believe it’s “complaining” or passing judgement. It contains first hand accounts from the IOF about the Hannibal Directive which was used repeatedly on October 7th. In other words, the IOF purposefully killing Israeli civilians and one another.
One case in which it is known that civilians were hit, a case that received wide coverage, took place in the house of Pessi Cohen at Kibbutz Be’eri. 14 hostages were held in the house as the IDF attacked it, with 13 of them killed. In the coming weeks, the IDF is expected to publish the results of its investigation of the incident, which will answer the question of whether Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram, the commander of Division 99 who was in charge of operations in Be’eri on October 7, was employing the Hannibal procedure. Did he order the tank to move ahead even at the cost of civilian casualties, as he stated in an interview he gave later to the New York Times?