(((Killing their own)))

SS Patria - In 1940, the ships Milos, Pacific and Atlantic carried 3600 Jewish refugees from Romania, arriving in British Palestine with 1771. Upon lacking entry permits the refugees were transferred to the SS Patria which was to deport them to Mauritius. To prevent the ship from leaving, Jewish, terrorist cell Haganah sank it with a bomb, killing 282, 50 of witch were British crew. Survivors were saved by British security members and boats from Palestinian port workers. The boming was authorised by future Israeli prime minister, Moshe Sharett, who led the Political Department of the Jewish Agency in the temporary absence of future prime minister David Ben-Gurion. Haganah's involvement was disclosed in 1957 from the memoirs of Munya Mardor, who planted the bomb.

Though Munya claims that there was no intention to sink the ship, this is unlikely given that half a kilogram of explosives would have sufficed to damage the ship's engine, where as they used twice as much and had placed it on the border of the engine rooms hull, blowing a 6 meter hole in the ship's starboard side, causing it to sink. It is also known that the terrorist cell Irgun had planned to hit the ship with a torpedo. (𓃠)

Hannibal Directive

The Hannibal Directive is a procedure used by the IDF since the 1986 Lebanon war to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces. According to one version, it says that "the kidnapping must be stopped by all means, even at the price of striking and harming our own forces..." although the full text has never been published, and until 2003 Israel forbade any discussion of the subject in the press.

October 7

In an interview with Haaretz, Colonel Nof Erez stated that “the Hannibal Directive was apparently applied” and that 7 October “was a mass Hannibal.”

According to an investigation by Ynet at midday Israel’s supreme military command ordered all units to prevent the capture of Israeli citizens “at any cost” – even by firing on them. Tuval Escapa, a member of the security team for Kibbutz Be’eri, who set up a hotline to coordinate between kibbutz residents and the Israeli army told Haaretz that as desperation began to set in, “the commanders in the field made difficult decisions – including shelling houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages.” A tank battalion commander recalled receiving the same orders when he arrived on the scene, stating in a video interview: “I arrived in Be’eri to see Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram and the first thing he asks me to do is to fire a shell into a house.”

In an interview with Mako, an Apache pilot stated: “I choose targets like that... where I tell myself that the chance that I am shooting here on hostages as well is low.” However, he admitted that his judgment “was not 100%.” The commander of the Apache unit, Lt. Col. E. stated “I understand that we have to shoot here and quickly... Shooting at people in our territory – this is something I never thought I would do.” Reserve pilot Lt. Col. A. stated: “I find myself in a dilemma as to what to shoot at, because there are so many of them.”

There are numerous testimonies from survivors who's relatives were killed by friendly fire:

Niv was mistakenly identified as a terrorist and killed by fire from our forces, his mother seeks justice: "No one took responsibility."

Adi was suspected of being a terrorist and shot to death: "We demand explanations, why weren't the wheels shot?"

IDF accidentally shoots dead Nahal Oz resident, his family requests he be recognized as a martyr.

Survivor Yasmin Porat, who's husband was killed by friendly fire in Be'eri, stated: “I thought to myself, ‘Why are they shooting tank shells into the house?’ And I asked one of the people that was with me, 'Why are they shooting?’ So they explained to me that it was to break the walls, in order to help cleanse the house.”

“They eliminated everyone, including the hostages because there was very, very heavy crossfire.”

According to hostage Danielle Rachiel: “We held our heads down because we automatically knew they’d be suspicious of us, in a small beat-up car… from the same direction the terrorists were coming from. Our forces began shooting at us!”

An Israeli police report admits that the helicopters killed both Hamas fighters and some Israeli concert goers with airstrikes.

Slain hostages

Oct. 26: Hamas announces that killed almost 50 of the hostages from October 7th, after Israel sent tanks, troops and armored bulldozers into the enclave.

Nov. 1: Later Hamas announced that seven hostages from October 7 were killed in Israel's bombing of the Jabalia camp. 

Nov. 4: Hamas announces that 60 Israeli hostages were were missing because of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7. 

SOS incident - After investigating cloth hanging for a building which read SoS, the IDF shot three shirtless Israeli hostages waving white flags, killing two and injuring one, who took shelter in a nearby building to call out "help" in Hebrew, prompting a cease fire to be ordered, before also being shot dead upon leaving the building.

Gas attack - The IDF killed three Israeli hostages in a tunnel with poison gas, one having crushed their fingered trying to escape.