Israelische Armee: Ende der umstrittenen "Hannibal-Direktive"
Israel's Military Chief Orders End to Secretive Hannibal Directive It ensures the use of all force necessary to prevent the capture of an Israeli soldier.
Smoke billows following an Israeli military strike east of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, August 1, 2014. The military is believed to have invoked the Hannibal Directive here after believing that soldier Hadar Goldin had been captured.
Israel's Military Chief Orders End to Secretive Hannibal Directive
It ensures the use of all force necessary to prevent the capture of an Israeli soldier.
By Jack Moore On 6/28/16
Israel’s top military chief has ordered an end to the secretive and controversial procedure known as the Hannibal Directive, an order that allows the military as much force as deemed necessary to prevent the capture of a soldier. Chief of Staff Major General Gadi Eisenkot issued the halt a few weeks ago, calling for a new formulation of the directive that has prompted criticism from human rights groups, sources within the Israeli military told newspaper Haaretz. ...
It permits soldiers to attempt to stop a kidnap attempt with force, even if it endangers the life of those captured, for example shooting at his or her abductors even if the soldier could be harmed. The order is believed to be named after the Carthaginian general who killed himself with poison rather than be captured by the Romans. ...
Israel’s State Comptroller Yosef Shapira, who reviews the policies of Israel’s government, recommended that Eisenkot consider whether a procedure is required at all, instead of a reformulation of the current directive, and that if there is a new directive, it should be given from a higher authority in the military, Haaretz reported. At present, a brigade commander is able to activate the order to prevent the capture of a soldier.
Several instances in which the order is believed to have been used include the Gaza conflict in 2014 when commanders feared that soldier Hadar Goldin had been captured by Palestinian militants in a tunnel raid.
The military subsequently bombed an area of Rafah it thought he could have been held by his captors in a manhunt that utilized huge amounts of firepower and left more than 100 Palestinians dead. It came to light that Goldin had already died, possibly in an Israeli air strike.
This day in the Gaza War became known as Black Friday and Hamas is believed to be retaining Goldin’s remains, which Israel and the soldier’s family want to see returned....
Smoke billows following an Israeli military strike east of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, August 1, 2014. The military is believed to have invoked the Hannibal Directive here after believing that soldier Hadar Goldin had been captured.
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By Jack Moore On 6/28/16
Israel’s top military chief has ordered an end to the secretive and controversial procedure known as the Hannibal Directive, an order that allows the military as much force as deemed necessary to prevent the capture of a soldier. Chief of Staff Major General Gadi Eisenkot issued the halt a few weeks ago, calling for a new formulation of the directive that has prompted criticism from human rights groups, sources within the Israeli military told newspaper Haaretz. ...
It permits soldiers to attempt to stop a kidnap attempt with force, even if it endangers the life of those captured, for example shooting at his or her abductors even if the soldier could be harmed. The order is believed to be named after the Carthaginian general who killed himself with poison rather than be captured by the Romans. ...
Israel’s State Comptroller Yosef Shapira, who reviews the policies of Israel’s government, recommended that Eisenkot consider whether a procedure is required at all, instead of a reformulation of the current directive, and that if there is a new directive, it should be given from a higher authority in the military, Haaretz reported. At present, a brigade commander is able to activate the order to prevent the capture of a soldier.
Several instances in which the order is believed to have been used include the Gaza conflict in 2014 when commanders feared that soldier Hadar Goldin had been captured by Palestinian militants in a tunnel raid.
The military subsequently bombed an area of Rafah it thought he could have been held by his captors in a manhunt that utilized huge amounts of firepower and left more than 100 Palestinians dead. It came to light that Goldin had already died, possibly in an Israeli air strike.
This day in the Gaza War became known as Black Friday and Hamas is believed to be retaining Goldin’s remains, which Israel and the soldier’s family want to see returned....
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