Hannibal Directive Focus of War Crimes Inquiry ~ by @Richards1052

Occupied Palestine | فلسطين

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IDF Col. Ofer Winter’s approach to Rafah: apres moi, le deluge.

The Israeli attorney general and military prosecutor have begun investigations of numerous incidents during Operation Protective Edge which may reach to the level of war crimes :

While fighting still raged, the government and IDF appointed special investigative staff to inquire into tens of incidents, among them invocation of the Hannibal Directive in Rafah, out of fear of claims by the UN [Human Rights panel] and human rights groups alleging war crimes.

During Hannibal, the IDF lays down immense destructive firepower to either kill captured Israeli soldiers (or frustrate their capture, depending on your viewpoint).  As a result of this indiscriminate slaughter of enemy combatants and civilians, hundreds of Gazans were killed during the war.  During the most infamous invocation of Hannibal, 160-190 were killed and large…

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