A scandal threatens the Israeli army. After it was proven that it mistakenly killed large numbers of its citizens during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, according to the Israeli newspapers Yedioth Ahronoth and Haaretz, an American investigative website revealed evidence that this mass killing of Israeli citizens was not carried out by mistake but rather intentionally, based on what It appears to be an Israeli military directive called the Hannibal Directive.

Many of the allegations, and even myths, surrounding the Al-Qassam Brigades’ attack on southern Israel on October 7, known as the Al-Aqsa Flood, are being demolished one after another. After it was proven false that Hamas beheaded 40 children and raped women, it was finally revealed that Israel apparently killed A large portion of the civilians who died on October 7.

There is strong evidence that the occupation forces, during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, bombed Israeli targets and citizens, including the Erez crossing, Kibbutz Be’eri, and the Nova electronic music festival.

The testimonies of survivors of the Al-Aqsa Flood, in addition to the previous documented actions of the occupation army against captured Israeli soldiers and civilians, raise questions about the real reason behind the high number of Israeli deaths in the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, especially since Hamas was primarily aiming to obtain prisoners to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners, according to a report. The Real News Network (TRNN) is an American news organization dedicated to investigative journalism.

The two largest newspapers in Israel confirm the occupation army's bombing of its citizens

Two reports by the two largest newspapers in Israel revealed that Israeli military helicopters opened fire on Palestinian militants but wounded Israelis who were participating in a festival during the attack launched by Hamas against Israel on October 7.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said that this emerged from an Israeli security assessment based on a police investigation of Hamas fighters who were arrested on October 7.

It said, according to the assessment, that Hamas fighters had no prior information about the festival that was held near Kibbutz Ra'im, near the border with Gaza, because the party was postponed shortly before the attack, according to the Israeli police.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth also reported on the Israeli army helicopters attacking the ceremony.

The newspaper reported that Israeli forces "found it difficult to identify Hamas fighters," adding that helicopter pilots "used artillery" against civilians at the festival.

Operation Al-Aqsa Flood

A Palestinian resistance attack on the city of Ashkelon/Reuters

The newspaper said in its report: “Hamas fighters were instructed to slowly blend in with the crowds and not move under any circumstances.”

In this way, they tried to fool the Israeli Air Force into believing that they were Israeli. This deception worked for a while.

He added, "The report said that the pilots found it difficult to distinguish between Hamas fighters and Israelis."

But what is noteworthy in the newspaper’s report is that “after the hoax was exposed, the Apache helicopters were forced to free themselves from all restrictions.”

This indicates the possibility that the Israeli forces were aware that Hamas fighters had infiltrated the Israeli crowds and deliberately bombed these crowds, including Israelis and Palestinians.

The newspaper said, "When they realized this, some of them decided to use artillery shells against Hamas fighters independently, without obtaining permission from their superiors."

The police estimated the number of people killed at the festival at 364 people, but did not reveal their identities. There are no Israeli estimates regarding the number of Israelis killed by the occupation, but there are indications that most of them were killed by the Israeli army.

The details of the investigation contradict the official Israeli story about the attack carried out by the Palestinian resistance movement, which claimed that Hamas gunmen slaughtered revelers at the festival.

Israel has killed more than 12,300 Palestinians in its air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip since the surprise attack launched by Hamas. Meanwhile, the official Israeli death toll of 1,400 was reduced to about 1,200.

An Israeli woman says that her lover was shot by Israelis and praises the good treatment of the resistance fighters

Israeli Yasmin Porat (44 years old), who was arrested by Hamas resistance for a period during the Al-Aqsa flood, said that Israeli civilians were “without a doubt” killed by the Israeli army.

Yasmin Porat watched her partner, who was handcuffed by her Palestinian captors, being shot by Israeli commandos, who then dropped two tank shells on the house she was in.

Yasmin Porat had previously fled the electronic music festival that came under attack, which was held between Kibbutz Be'eri and Kibbutz Rahim, which also had military bases built into them.

These two kibbutzim were attacked. Many prisoners were taken from them.

Yasmin Porat, fled to Kibbutz Be'eri, entered a house with her partner, and were then momentarily captured by gunmen.

She told Israeli National Radio that when the Israeli special forces arrived, they started shooting everyone, and that most of the prisoners, along with Hamas gunmen, were caught in the crossfire, and that everyone was killed except for her and her family, who were used by a gunman as a human shield to ensure his safety before he surrendered.

She said that Palestinian fighters treated them and others “humanely,” after she fled the Nova Music Festival and after they succeeded in getting them out of the house and detained her with additional captives.

She said: "After an hour, the gunmen succeeded in opening the door of the shelter and took the four of us out. They took us to a house where there were 8 additional hostages. So we became 12 hostages with 40 gunmen who were guarding us."

“The Israeli army eliminated everyone, including the hostages,” she added. “There was a very intense exchange of fire” and even tank shelling.

The Israeli citizen denied the occupation’s story about the Al-Qassam Brigades’ torture of hostages in the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip during Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood.”

She said that the hostages were in the crosshairs of the exchange of fire between the occupation forces and the Palestinian resistance, and added, "They were often trying to kill Hamas resisters, but they (the Israeli forces) killed everyone."

What is more dangerous is that Borat also revealed other details related to the incident, pointing to the firing of shells from a tank towards a small house, noting that everyone who was in the house was killed except for a girl named Hadas Dagan who survived.

Regarding who was responsible for the killing of the hostages, Yasmine answered in a way that indicated that the occupation forces may have been behind those events.

They were giving us water

Yasmine confirmed that Hamas members were providing water to the hostages and trying to calm them down when they felt tense, noting that the feeling was frightening, but she was not harmed despite the difficult circumstances.

Yasmin Porat's testimony shatters the occupation's false narrative about Hamas members, and this is not the only incident in which settlers' testimonies reveal details different from the official narrative. A settler had spoken about how Hamas members refused to harm her and her two children. She pointed out that one of the resistance fighters told her in English: “Don’t worry, we are Muslims, we will not harm you.”

Did the occupation deliberately kill its citizens during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in implementation of Hannibal’s directive?

There is growing evidence that in the chaotic fighting that occurred as soon as Hamas fighters entered Israel on October 7, the Israeli army decided to target not only Hamas fighters, but also the Israeli prisoners with them, and that it was not done by mistake, the news network reported "(TRNN) is an American news organization dedicated to investigative journalism"."https://therealnews.com/did-israels-military-kill-its-own-civilians-on-oct-7"

Tuval Eskaba, a member of the security team of Kibbutz Be'eri, told the Israeli press that he had set up a hotline for coordination between kibbutz residents and the Israeli army. He told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that his despair began to creep inside him. Field commanders made difficult decisions, including bombing homes and occupants in order to eliminate what they described as "terrorists and hostages." The newspaper reported that Israeli leaders "were forced to request an air strike against their facilities inside the Erez crossing (a military zone) into Gaza in order to strike the resistance fighters who took control of the area."

Israel reduced its death toll from about 1,400 to 1,200, including several hundred civilians, who Israel says were killed by Hamas activists. Other testimony from survivors of the October 7 incident suggests an alternative explanation: that Israeli leaders, obsessed with defeating Hamas, may have targeted Israeli soldiers and civilians and willingly sacrificed them in the crossfire, according to a TRNN report by Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Middle East bureau chief and former Balkans bureau chief for The New York Times, and in an interview with American journalist and blogger Max Blumenthal, editor of The Grayzone website, who worked for several newspapers, including The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera English, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times.

Did Netanyahu intend to leave the leftist Israelis?

Max Blumenthal says: There is a prisoner who was in the hands of Hamas for a period. She appears to be from one of the kibbutzim where the largest number of prisoners were captured, which is located near Nir Oz.

It is a kibbutz that includes many people, most of them from the left of the Israeli political spectrum, who might criticize Netanyahu. So Netanyahu and his government may not be willing to deal with them positively. But one of these hostages, an elderly woman, appeared on camera from where she was being held inside Gaza and criticized Netanyahu, saying: You have no desire to reach us. What do you do? They reached a ceasefire, negotiated our release, and took us out of here. You've already killed 50 of us.

The Israeli army had previously implemented the Hannibal Rule and killed one of its soldiers

The report believes that the killing of Israeli citizens by the occupation during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood did not occur by mistake, but rather as a result of a rule or directive that the Israeli army followed, called the Hannibal Directive, and it was named after the Carthaginian general who poisoned himself instead of being arrested by the Romans.

Established in 1986 after the capture of Israeli soldiers, this directive aims to prevent Israeli forces from falling into enemy hands through the maximum use of force, even if this leads to the killing of captured soldiers and civilians.

The directive was implemented during the 2014 Israeli attack on Gaza, known as Operation Protective Edge. On August 1, 2014, Hamas fighters captured an Israeli soldier, Lieutenant Hadar Golden. In response, Israel dropped more than 2,000 bombs, missiles and shells on the area where he was being held. Golden was killed along with more than 100 Palestinian civilians. The directive was supposed to be canceled in 2016.

Max Blumenthal says: “Israel is now promoting new stories about children baked by Hamas in ovens. We have previously heard stories about children cut from their mothers’ wombs by so-called Hamas terrorists, about women being raped after they were taken, and gang rapes in the streets of Gaza City.”

The White House admitted that the beheading story was false after Biden repeated it.

All of these lies were repeated and put forward in order to give Israel the freedom to carry out the genocidal attack we are now witnessing in Gaza.

Hamas was aiming to obtain the largest possible number of prisoners to exchange them for its own

Max Blumenthal adds, “I am still trying to unravel these lies and began my investigation when testimonies began leaking to the Israeli media that contradicted the official Israeli story about October 7.”

The official story, told to Americans and Israelis, is that Hamas “terrorists” stormed into southern Israel and began shooting and killing people indiscriminately. Then they burned them alive, tied up entire families in their homes, and then somehow burned them all, burned the cars, burned the people in their cars as they were trying to escape, and carried out this massive mass shooting. It seems clear that many Israeli non-combatants were killed by Hamas gunmen, but that is where the official story ends.

He added, "What I was able to determine through these testimonies, in addition to the basic and visual analysis of the images presented by the Israeli Foreign Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Prime Minister's Office, is that Israel used disproportionate force against its citizens in order to eliminate Hamas."

“The Al-Aqsa flood is a politically motivated military attack by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and it was aimed at extracting political concessions from the State of Israel, which has been besieging the Gaza Strip for 15 years,” he said.

Max Blumenthal says: “It is important to understand that the main goal of the military attack launched by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad was to collect as many prisoners as possible, especially Israeli soldiers, in order to trigger the prisoner exchange that we witnessed when Gilad Shalit was released in 2011.” ". The Israeli soldier who was captured in 2006, in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, including the current Hamas Gaza leader, Yahya Sinwar. Therefore, this entire Al-Aqsa flood operation is understood against the background of the exchange of prisoners.

So militants were sent with detailed maps to population centers and military bases. It is clear that they received instructions at the military bases to attack and kill the Israeli soldiers who were imposing the siege on Gaza, and carried out the massacres that took place in the Strip during the past years.

Israeli helicopters arrived after most Hamas fighters had left

But when the Apache helicopters took off in the morning. The attack began around 6:00 a.m. at dawn, and by 10:30 a.m., according to Israeli media reports, all the well-trained Special Forces commandos and Hamas teams had already left.

By that point, two squadrons of Apache helicopters had been dispatched, and they were not even at full strength until 12:00 noon.

These planes bombed several sites that Hamas had controlled, including the Erez Crossing and Kibbutz Be'eri, which was the site that recorded the largest number of non-combatant casualties. I counted approximately 150 among the confirmed death toll published by Haaretz and most of them were not soldiers. These are people who were caught in the crossfire, Hamas militants tried to capture them, and there were confrontations in their homes. By the time Israeli commandos arrived, many of those confrontations had ended or were simply ended by bombing people's homes with tanks.

Kibbutz Be'eri was subjected to Israeli bombing, similar to what is happening in Gaza

“If you look at pictures of Kibbutz Be'eri they look like the houses that were bombed in Gaza, because they appear to have been bombed by Israeli tanks and artillery,” Blumenthal says. “Because there is no way that Hamas militants could have done that much structural damage to this entire kibbutz using small arms that “They were equipped with them, like Kalashnikovs and some RPGs.”

I24, a propaganda network sponsored by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, actually went to this kibbutz on a guided tour and said it saw traces of tanks everywhere. What happened there is clear and was clearly stated by the security coordinator of Kibbutz Be'eri, who revealed that he was on the hotline with the Israeli military command and they decided to bomb homes over their occupants, including Israeli civilians.

Based on the extent of the devastation on October 7, 2023, "we have to wonder whether Hannibal's directive was triggered that day," the TRNN report says.

The occupation bombed the Erez crossing, causing the death of its soldiers, and helicopters were asked to bomb indiscriminately.

The matter was not limited to the bombing of Israeli civilians, but also included soldiers, as the occupation bombed the Erez crossing after Hamas took control of it. Which led to the killing of many soldiers.

There is severe structural damage to the roof of the Erez crossing, which indicates that it has been subjected to aerial or artillery bombardment.

And in Kibbutz Be'eri where there was tank shelling, then we have Apache helicopter pilots in the air who stated in their testimonies in Hebrew to the Israeli media that they had no intelligence information. There is no way to distinguish between a civilian and a fighter on the ground.

However, they were told to completely unload their ammunition, return to base, fill their tanks again, reload, and then shoot as many cars and people on the ground as possible.

These testimonies were completely ignored by the Western media.

The report asks: “Were they encouraged to kill prisoners or shoot at cars they thought contained prisoners?” The report comments: “We do not know. But what happened appears to be similar to the same military doctrine used in Gaza: any civilian is a military target if he is a ‘neighbor of the resistance’.” Israel actually calls it "neighborhood policy." They do not know any other faith. They had no other means of targeting, and they were clearly not prepared for this military attack. So they went with their basic doctrine of bombing everything in front of them.

Has the influx of fighters not affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad from Gaza increased the chaos of the scene?

“This leads to the third scenario,” the American network report says. “It seems clear that after many of the elite teams of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad left, many people from Gaza began to flow in, including lower-level figures from the armed factions who may have possessed weapons” But they were not part of the process or was not trained.

This is an element that has been overlooked in a lot of Western media. There are onlookers, people who wanted to see what Israel looks like, to see the land from which their families were expelled. The report claims that there were some gruesome killings, and you could see real prisoners being taken by men On motorcycles, they didn't even have weapons."

It was a spontaneous operation by an oppressed people against those who had oppressed them for seven decades.

A lot of this happened during the Nova Music Festival. There was a lot of shooting between festival security guards and various gunmen, and a lot of people were killed, but a lot of people were fleeing the festival in cars.

The melted cars indicate that the festival's losses were caused by Israeli bombing

There is a video clip of some Hamas gunmen stopping cars and shooting people.

But it seems that the greatest losses that occurred during the festival were not inflicted by the Palestinian resistance, but by Israel itself.

Pictures released by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs show completely melted cars, with charred bodies inside. Max Blumenthal says: “Those, to me, are telltale signs of Hellfire missile strikes from Apache helicopters, Apache crews, and squadrons. The Israelis then posted a video of themselves shooting Cars, hitting cars with Hellfire missiles, and shooting people walking on the ground with cannon fire.”

“We don't know who these people were, but if you look, a lot of the cars were heading back to Gaza,” Blumenthal says. “So it's very likely that they were cars of people from Gaza who might have been taking prisoners, and a lot of the captives or potential captives were killed.”

Among these is a famous woman named Shawnee Locke.

This woman, in whom the Israeli Foreign Ministry aroused great interest, was a festival-goer, attractive, and a German citizen. There are some videos taken of it. They say they found part of her skull.

The report asks: Was she in a car that was hit by a Hellfire missile fired from an Israeli plane? It's not clear. But it is very clear that many of these cars were hit by Apache helicopter missiles, and the helicopter pilots said they had no idea who was inside them. They were shooting at people on the other side of Gaza after entering, by the afternoon of October 7. It is very clear that many Israelis were killed by Israeli forces, along with many Israeli soldiers who were on duty.

The scene of the cars is reminiscent of the tank massacre carried out by the American Apaches on Iraqi tanks

Chris Hedges says:

“I went to Kuwait after the first Gulf War and drove on the Highway of Death, which was miles and miles of Iraqi military vehicles, all of which were being bombed by Apache helicopters. When I saw one of the pictures from Israel, I felt it was exactly like what I had seen in Kuwait.

Some of these photos were removed after they were published by the Israeli army.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a website called hamas-massacre.com. (Hamas massacre) and its ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, announced that these images will be available and include images of charred cars, melted bodies, and all kinds of other atrocities committed by Hamas. But all the pictures eventually disappeared, and Gilad Erdan said that there was a technical error that prevented the pictures from being published.

“My initial reading was that they concluded that a lot of these images were either fake, or perhaps showed Hamas fighters being hit by Hellfire missiles,” Chris Hedges says.

The latest lies: Hamas baked a child inside the oven!

Recently at a fundraising event for the Republican Jewish Coalition, Eli Ber, a nationalist religious Jew from New York who lives in Israel, said on stage that an Israeli child had been burned in an oven and baked by, in his words, Hamas “terrorists.”

In fact no child was seen in the oven.

But the origin of this lie goes back to a person named Eli Moskowitz, a member of the Israeli first responders to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

Eli Moskowitz has never seen a baby baked in the oven. But he said he found a small bag containing body parts that had apparently been compressed by a heating element.

Netanyahu displayed these body parts after Netanyahu felt embarrassed to retract the story of 40 headless children, and photos of them were sent to influential people by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The American site report asks: “What is the heating element that could generate all this heat to burn a part of the body, which was not even a child as Israel says?” It is likely that the American-made Hellfire missile used by Israel and the parts of the body that were blown up by Hellfire missile, possibly an Israeli citizen, but possibly someone from Gaza.

Here's how many Israeli children were killed in the operation

But the story suggested that it was the remains of an Israeli child. But if you look at the confirmed death toll, only one Israeli child was killed. It's terrible and tragic. It was a 10-month-old girl named Millie Cohen, who was accidentally shot by Hamas gunmen during an exchange of gunfire.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz's reports on the dead show that there is no other child.

There is no child burned in the oven, and Hamas did not kill children, but linking a child to an oven is something that aims only to demonize Hamas by recalling the memory of Holocaust ovens.

The American website comments: “What we are looking at is false and terrible propaganda being spun in order to justify the beheading of actual children with missiles in the Gaza Strip and the systematic extermination of a group of children and the entire community.”

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