Israeli troops were ordered to shoot and kill captive Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023, Israel’s then defence minister admitted this week. The order to carry out Israel’s so-called Hannibal Directive was issued “tactically” and “in various places” next to Gaza, Yoav Gallant told Israel’s Channel 12 on Thursday. “In other places it was not given, and that is a problem,” he continued.

Contrary to Gallant’s statement that the Hannibal Directive was unevenly applied in different areas, Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported in January 2024 that at midday on 7 October, an unambiguous order was given from the high command of the Israeli military to invoke the Hannibal Directive across the entire region.

In July, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the order “not a single vehicle can return to Gaza” was issued to the Gaza Division of the Israeli military at 11:22 am that day. But Gallant’s new statement is highly significant, as the first public admission by a contemporary Israeli minister that their troops were ordered to fire on their own people on 7 October.

  • @[email protected]
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    -61 day ago

    It’s really just the israeli people at this point.

    All of them have the capacity to leave, but they choose not to. It’s not cheap living in Israel.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      31 day ago

      Children don’t have the ability to leave.

        • @Duamerthrax
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          011 hours ago

          Kids aren’t their parents.

          • @[email protected]
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            29 hours ago

            Are you stupid? Their parents can make the decision to leave and take their kids with them.

            How dumb do you have to be to believe anyone is blaming children for any of this?

      • @IndustryStandard
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        017 hours ago

        Pretty much all Israelis can get citizenship in the country their grandparents came from.

        • @Duamerthrax
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          Irrelevant to my point. If you’re a minor in Israel, you don’t have many options to move out until you’re an adult.

    • @kuato
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      017 hours ago

      Where are you getting this idea? Only about 10% have dual-citizenship. Who’s going to absorb the other 90%? And most probably aren’t wealthy enough to simply pick up their lives and leave.

      • @[email protected]
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        511 hours ago

        Who’s going to absorb the other 90%?

        The US has plenty of room. You can fit 11 Israels in Wyoming.