The Hannibal Directive is an Israeli military protocol authorising lethal force to prevent Palestinian militia taking Israeli hostages – by killing everyone, including Israelis. Israeli tanks and particularly helicopters, carried out dozens of Hannibal attacks on 7 October. Many, and potentially a large majority, of Israeli deaths on the day came from so-called ‘friendly fire’ under Hannibal, including those killed in incinerated cars by missile fire.
Hannibal was introduced as long ago as 1986 by the occupation army’s Northern Command after the abduction of several Israeli soldiers in Lebanon in 1982 – who were later released as part of a prisoner exchange that freed more than a thousand Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
7 October was far from the first time that Hannibal was used to authorise the occupation military to kill Israelis.
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