{"id":23275,"date":"2024-01-21T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T06:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=23275"},"modified":"2024-01-21T07:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T06:53:44","slug":"israeli-hq-ordered-troops-to-shoot-israeli-captives-on-7-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=23275","title":{"rendered":"Israeli HQ ordered troops to shoot Israeli captives on 7 October<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asa Winstanley, Electronic Intifada<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Vehicles stacked up near the southern Israeli town of Netivot, near Gaza, in November. They were destroyed soon after Palestinian fighters began taking captives on 7 October. A new investigation by Israeli journalists has concluded that 70 such vehicles were blown up by Israeli fire. (Jim Hollander UPI)<\/span><\/p><\/div>
\nAt midday on 7 October Israel\u2019s supreme military command ordered all units to prevent the capture of Israeli citizens \u201cat any cost\u201d \u2013 even by firing on them.<\/p>\n

The military \u201cinstructed all its fighting units to perform the Hannibal Directive in practice, although it did so without stating that name explicitly,\u201d Israeli journalists revealed last weekend.<\/p>\n

The revelations came in a new investigative article by Ronen Bergman and Yoav Zitun<\/span>, two journalists with extensive sources inside Israel\u2019s military and intelligence establishment.<\/p>\n

They also revealed that \u201csome 70 vehicles\u201d driven by Palestinian fighters returning to Gaza were blown up by Israeli helicopter gunships, drones or tanks.<\/p>\n

Many of these vehicles contained Israeli captives.<\/p>\n

The journalists wrote that, \u201cit is not clear at this stage how many of the captives were killed due to the operation of this order\u201d to the air force that they should prevent return to Gaza at all costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least in some of the cases, everyone in the vehicle was killed,\u201d the journalists explain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asa Winstanley, Electronic Intifada: At midday on 7 October Israel\u2019s supreme military command ordered all units to prevent the capture of Israeli citizens \u201cat any cost\u201d \u2013 even by firing on them. The military \u201cinstructed all its fighting units to … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}