How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October

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  • Il ne semble qu’on ne trouve pas beaucoup d’éléments, dans la presse française, sur le bilan de l’application de la #doctrine_Hannibal contre les otages transportés par le Hamas vers Gaza le 7 octobre. On ne saura jamais mais cet article évoque plusieurs centaines possiblement. Y a t il d’autres sources avec des fourchettes plus précises ?

    Israel clearly killed its own on 7 October, despite what media says
    https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/10/07/israel-hannibal-directive
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    Israel: difficulties counting the casualties
    There were hundreds of Israeli aircraft or drone attacks on “targets” near the border on 7 October. Instructions were reportedly to “shoot at everything”. One Israeli media investigation noted that, according to military investigators, of around 70 vehicles they examined that had been hit by Israeli forces, “at least in some of the cases, everyone in the vehicle was killed”. Winstanley says:

    It is unknown how many Israelis those 70 vehicles contained, but given what is known about other incidents, some cars probably contained several. These vehicles alone may have accounted for a very large number of Israeli civilian deaths.

    Looking at one car scrapyard, he notes that:

    Photos and drone footage of the scrapyard clearly showed many of the cars were completely flattened and twisted in a manner consistent with Israeli bombing from the air.

    Adding that it possibly contained “1,650 vehicles”, he stresses that:

    it does seem entirely plausible that Israel killed hundreds of the Israelis who died during the course of the offensive

    In one case in particular, survivors of one Israeli attack said “everyone else in and around the building was either shot or “burned completely” by the Israeli tank fire”. And as Winstanley highlights:

    Similar incidents happened elsewhere. But in most places, there were few survivors, especially of the aerial bombardments.

    Indeed, “the UN report lists a surprisingly high number of places where Hannibal attacks possibly or certainly took place”.

    We’ll probably never know the truth
    7 October 2023 resulted in “a maximum of 780 dead Israeli civilians”, Winstanley calculates. But how many did Israel kill, and how many did Palestinians kill? He insists “it is impossible to know without a truly independent international investigation”, but “Israel is blocking just such an investigation”.

    Because “very few autopsies were carried out”, “many bodies were prematurely buried”, and many destroyed Israeli cars “were crushed by Israeli authorities”, a lot of the potential evidence of Israeli military crimes no longer exists. The UN, however, “documented strong indications that the ‘Hannibal Directive’ was used in several instances on 7 October, harming Israelis at the same time as striking Palestinian militants”.