More details emerge regarding the October 7th Hamas attack:
“An air force colonel has said that Israeli airstrikes may have intentionally killed Israeli captives rather than let them be taken to Gaza…
Asked by Haaretz interviewer Lior Kodner about ‘rumors that the army exploded all kinds of houses inside the settlements’ and about the Hannibal Directive, Erez confirmed that the air force did indeed ‘explode houses’ but insisted they never did so ‘without permission’…
Erez explained that helicopter pilots had been reduced to using mobile phones to call the settlement emergency squads, effectively local Israeli militias in the area, who were trying to stop the Palestinian assault.
These militias apparently directed the pilots, telling them which houses to blow up. It seems that they often did so even at the expense of killing the captive Israelis…
After weeks of claiming that 1,400 ‘civilians’ were killed that day, Israel last month revised its death toll down to about 900 civilians plus around 300 soldiers and police. An official Israeli account posting to X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday appeared to lower the death toll even further to ‘over 1,000.'”