A year’s worth of The Electronic Intifada’s investigative reporting, extensive monitoring and translation of the Hebrew-language Israeli media, and more has revealed that during the 7th offensive, Israel expanded the use of its murderous “Hannibal Directive” – designed to prevent soldiers from being taken alive as prisoners of war – by killing many of its own civilians… In fact, “Hannibal” began less than an hour after the Palestinian offensive began…
Category: False claims about October 7
Claims about October 7th that turned out to be untrue.
Americans are always the last to know…about Israel’s crimes
This October 7th story is breaking news in Australia, old news in Israel…and suppressed news in the US. This is the Hannibal Directive.
Israeli army probe covered up “friendly fire” killings on October 7
The Israeli army’s first published report about the events of October 7, 2023 praises the general who led Israeli forces in battle at Kibbutz Be’eri on that day for ordering tank fire at a home killing up to 10 Israeli civilian captives.
Western media ignores Israeli confirmation of Hannibal Directive on 7 Oct
Despite a major Israeli daily confirming that the army killed many of its own soldiers and civilians on October 7, corporate news outlets have chosen to stay silent
Israel has manufactured an industrial-scale version of Jim Crow rape hoaxes
The real story is how top US and Israeli officials spread fake rape claims to provide cover for genocide, demonise all Palestinians, convince Israeli society that the brutal war is justified, and bash the UN.
Col. Douglas MacGregor: US is under the control of Israel, likens Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto
Israel’s war on Gaza resembles the German response to the Warsaw Uprising – only it’s livestreamed for all the world to see.
Israel’s leading paper says its own army deliberately killed Israelis on October 7
Documents & testimonies reveal the Hannibal operational order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity, was employed at 3 army facilities infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well. But the U.S. media continues to hide the truth.
How an Israeli colonel invented the burned babies lie to justify genocide
Atrocities against babies that the head of the Israeli army’s national rescue unit alleged were committed by Hamas fighters when they attacked an Israeli kibbutz on October 7 were in fact lurid tales of the officer’s own invention, intended to provide a pretext for genocide in the Gaza Strip, and to protect the massacre’s actual perpetrators: Israel’s own soldiers, acting on the orders of a top general.
Widely reported Palestinian father-son ‘rape’ confession contradicted by piles of evidence
Alleged “confessions” by two Palestinians in Israeli custody filmed seemingly admitting to multiple rapes, murders, and kidnappings on October 7, do not match the events of that day, are contradicted by copious evidence, and were likely coerced through torture. US and British media are running with the stories regardless.
UN finds at least 14 Israelis likely intentionally killed by own army on October 7
Israeli forces reportedly used the Hannibal Directive multiple times on October 7th, killing abductees to prevent their capture