by Oui
Thu Oct 9th, 2025 at 06:23:41 PM EST
The butchers on 10/7 were the Hamas terrorists and the IDF, taken by surprise implemented the Hannibal directive and killed their own in great numbers.
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Yesterday, was the second anniversary of the 10/7 attack in which 1,200 Israelis were killed. It was a shocking traumatic event for Israelis in general, and the families of the dead and hostages in particular.
Israeli vehicles at Nova festival likely destroyed by helicopter fire
But it has been exploited in order to wage a genocide against an entire people. The enormity of 10/7 pales in comparison to the savagery and mass slaughter of the following two years. Bibi Netanyahu and others who've exploited the dead on behalf of personal political interests have desecrated their lives.
Hayyim Katsman was one of the victims of 10/7. He earned a PhD from the University of Washington in Middle East studies. He was an Israeli dissident, absolutely opposed to the government's policies and committed to Palestinian rights. He once invited me to speak before a University class he taught, which was how we met. While it is a terrible tragedy that someone deeply committed to the Palestinian cause paid the ultimate sacrifice, Hayyim would never want his death to serve as an excuse for genocide. Never.
In another incident, IDF Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram (the “Butcher of Be’eri”) commanded a tank to fire directly into a Kibbutz home in which he knew Hamas kidnappers and an Israeli family were sheltering. 13 of the 18 Israelis were killed in this incident. An IDF “investigation” cleared him, saying he acted “professionally and responsibly.” Doubtless, he too acted in the name of Hannibal. Hiram was promoted in rank and hailed as a hero. The dead civilians? An afterthought, if that. Sacrificed on the altar of nation security.
The Chief of the General Staff in the Gaza Strip
Dr. Hayim Katsman: A Brilliant Academic Lecturer and Car Mechanic
As anyone who attended Dr. Hayim Katsman's political science classes can tell you, he dedicated the first two minutes of each session to meditation. The world outside is filled with noise, distractions, and nuisances, he used to tell his students, so it was important to spend those first couple of minutes meditating together, to create a buffer between the outside world and the classroom.
Israeli forces accused of killing their own citizens under the 'Hannibal Directive' during October 7 chaos | ABC Australia - 7 Sept. 2024 |
What is the Hannibal Directive?
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the directive was named at random by a computer program, but Hannibal was the famous Carthaginian general who took poison rather than be captured by the Romans.
... over time an interpretation spread through the military that it was better to kill comrades than to allow their capture.
"They interpreted it as if they are [meant] to intentionally,
deliberately kill the soldier in order to foil the attempted
abduction, and that was wrong,"
Israeli philosopher Asa Kasher, who wrote
the IDF code of ethics, told the ABC.
"That is legally wrong and morally wrong and ethically wrong, it's wrong on all accounts."
In 2011, Hamas successfully used an Israeli hostage to secure a major prisoner exchange, swapping one Israeli soldier, tank gunner Gilad Shalit, for more than 1,000 prisoners, including the current Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar.
"Hannibal at Erez, dispatch a Zik [attack drone]," came the command on October 7.
Those words, reported by Israeli newspaper Haaretz in July, confirm what many Israelis have feared since the Hamas attacks on October 7 in southern Israel.
Israeli forces have killed their own citizens.
Israeli authorities say more than 800 civilians and around 300 soldiers were killed on October 7.
'This was a mass Hannibal'
In July, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed commanders in the IDF gave the order to fire on troops who had been captured by Hamas at three separate locations, explicitly referencing the Hannibal Directive.
One former Israeli officer, Air Force Colonel Nof Erez, told a Haaretz podcast the directive was not specifically ordered but was "apparently applied" by responding aircrews.
Panicked, operating without their normal command structure and unable to coordinate with ground forces, they fired on vehicles returning to Gaza, knowing they were likely carrying hostages.
"This was a mass Hannibal. It was tons and tons of openings in the fence, and thousands of people in every type of vehicle, some with hostages and some without," Colonel Erez said.
Israeli Air Force pilots described to Yedioth Ahronot newspaper the firing of "tremendous" amounts of ammunition on October 7 at people attempting to cross the border between Gaza and Israel.
"Twenty-eight fighter helicopters shot over the course of the day all of the ammunition in their bellies, in renewed runs to rearm. We are talking about hundreds of 30-millimetre cannon mortars and Hellfire missiles," reporter Yoav Zeitoun said.
"The frequency of fire at the thousands of terrorists was enormous at the start, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow their attacks and carefully choose the targets."
