Israeli philosophy professor Asa Kasher says that army leaders do not want to investigate possible cases of use of the so-called “Hannibal Protocol“Which was drafted in 1986 and supervised by three senior military and intelligence leaders, including National Security Advisor General Yaakov Amedor, and includes instructions for soldiers to use force to obstruct the kidnapping of their colleagues without this intervention posing a threat to the lives of these soldiers.
Kasher, who wrote the Israeli army’s code of conduct, denies the existence of any law that allows an Israeli to kill another Israeli under any pretext.
But what the philosophy professor says does not agree with what was stated in a report prepared by Salam Khader, which monitors events that occurred only several weeks ago, when the occupation forces published video footage of soldiers from the Nahal Brigade carrying out an operation on the outskirts of Jabalia, and Israel said that the units captured the geographical location of a tunnel. Believed to be a leader in Al-Qassam Brigades -The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation)- uses it.
When the Nahal soldiers did not succeed in entering the tunnel, they called in air intervention and used toxic gases in an attempt to assassinate the Qassam commander whom they suspected was in the tunnel. After that, it was announced that the bodies of 3 Israelis had been found. Their bodies remained in the army’s possession for a full month to uncover the cause of death.
Then the mother of one of the three dead, the captured soldier Ron Sherman, appeared, accusing the Israeli army of killing her son. “They told us that Ron was killed by Hamas, but I am certain that he was killed after being deliberately shot with other detainees.”
The report also highlighted surveillance camera images leaked shortly after the 7th of last October from the Be’eri settlement, showing Israeli tanks firing at homes on suspicion of the presence of resistance fighters there. It later became clear that the operation resulted in the killing of settlers.
According to observers, these clues have revived the controversy surrounding the so-called “Hannibal Protocol,” which is surrounded by mystery Amnesty International During the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in 2014, it was documented that it was activated after a kidnapping Hadar GoldenA rabbi said he was killed in Rafah and a memorial service was held for him, while his family refused to accept the official story, and the Qassam Brigades have not revealed his fate to this day.
Another incident during the temporary three-day truce in the war between the occupation forces and the resistance factions in 2014 revealed more about the Hannibal Protocol when Amnesty International documented the events of August 1st through officers from Givati. It may be one of the rare times that Israel acknowledges that Unofficially, the “Hannibal Protocol” was activated when the commanding officer realized that a soldier was missing, so he issued a radio call with one word, “Hannibal.” Once the word was transmitted over the radio, the system followed for this protocol began to be implemented, as everyone fired in waves without stopping.
