Israel has massacred its own people under a highly controversial directive known as the “Hannibal Protocol” during Operation Al-Aqsa Storm carried out on October 7, media reports revealed.
According to numerous media reports since the Palestinian resistance group Hamas launched the Al-Aqsa Storm Operation, Israeli regime forces have been fiercely enacting the “Hannibal Protocol,” mass killing all those who were taken hostage.
This has resulted in a high number of Israeli casualties which stands at 1,200 according to official figures, the reports said.
Developed in 1986, following the capture of two Israeli regime forces by Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance group, the directive advises the Israelis to fire on their own if they are taken captive, claiming a dead solider is better than a live hostage.
In one report, an Israeli eyewitness said that during Hamas’ special military operation north of Gaza, the Israeli regime forces surrounded a house containing members of the Palestinian group as well as Israeli hostages and later opened fire with tank rounds, killing all of them.
“I thought, ‘Why are they shooting at the house with a tank?’ I asked the people with me, ‘Why are they shooting?’ They told me, ‘They are shooting to demolish the walls to help clear the house of (Hamas),’” eyewitness Yasmin Porat told local media.
Porat added that, “after two tanks fired, almost everybody died.” However, the Israeli military falsely reported that they had been killed by Hamas fighters.
Other reports in local media about the high number of Israeli casualties during the operation noted that Israeli forces targeted both Palestinian fighters and civilians at a music festival near the Gaza Strip, all pointing to the fact the Israeli regime forces enacted the Hannibal Protocol, mass-killing their own people.
In an interview with Israel’s Haaretz daily, Lieut. Col. Nof Erez also drew attention to the possibility that Israeli forces responding to Hamas’s operation might have implemented the directive.
“What we’ve seen here is a mass Hannibal. There were many gaps in the fences. There were thousands of people in many different vehicles, both with and without hostages,” Erez said on the October 7 operation, when Hamas fighters crossed into areas surrounding Gaza, including a music festival near the settlement of Re’im.
Another Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, also reported on the military’s aerial response to the attack on the festival.
“Forces (of Hamas) were instructed to march slowly towards the settlements and army stations, and inside them, and not to run under any circumstances, to make the pilots think they are Israelis. The deception worked for a little while until the Apache pilots understood they needed to sidestep their restrictions.”
When the pilots realized it was “difficult to distinguish” between Hamas fighters and Israelis, some decided independently at around 9 am to use artillery against the fighters “without obtaining permission from their superiors,” said the Hebrew-language daily.
