BREAKING: IDF Gave Orders to Kill Fellow IDF Soldiers on October 7, Israeli Outlet Reports

Soldiers were told to stop vehicles potentially carrying Israeli soldiers or civilians at all costs.

VT Foreign Policy

By Jonas E. Alexis

Soldiers were told to stop vehicles potentially carrying Israeli soldiers or civilians at all costs.

Israeli officials instructed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers to target fellow soldiers and potentially civilians in the chaos of the October 7, 2023 attack that Israeli officials have used as a springboard for their genocide in Gaza, a prominent Israeli outlet has reported.

According to Haaretz, IDF officials gave the order to execute the “Hannibal Directive” in at least three places on October 7, as soldiers were told to stop vehicles driven by Palestinian forces that were holding Israelis from reentering Gaza at all costs.

The orders were given by senior IDF officials, as soon as just an hour after Palestinian forces first fired their rockets at Israeli targets. The Hannibal orders potentially caused Israeli forces to contribute to the Israeli death toll on October 7, and, at the very least, put the Israeli hostages — who have been used as endless justification for Israel’s genocide in Gaza — in danger from IDF fire.

There has already been one widely circulated report that Israeli forces killed at least 14 Israeli civilians on October 7 — killing 13 of them by firing from a tank at a house civilians were being held in, and killing one woman via a helicopter while she was being abducted.

Other sources have long reported that the IDF used the Hannibal procedure on October 7, potentially killing Israeli civilians. However, the news is significant coming from Haaretz — Israel’s paper of record, which typically has a Zionist lean even though it is sometimes characterized as a left-leaning outlet…