https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-hannibal-directive
Israeli Newspaper Confirms IDF Employed 'Hannibal Directive' on October 7
by Jake Johnson
The Israeli newspaper Haaretzreported Sunday
that Israel's military repeatedly employed a protocol known as the
"Hannibal Directive" during the October 7 Hamas-led attack in an attempt
to prevent the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers—even if it meant putting
the lives of army captives and civilians at risk.
Haaretz
found based on documents and interviews with soldiers and senior
Israeli officers that Hannibal—an operational order developed in 1986
that "directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into
captivity" by enemy militants—was used "at three army facilities
infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well."
During the first hours of the Hamas-led attack, according to Haaretz, Israeli soldiers were given an order: "Not a single vehicle can return to Gaza."....
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bombshell-nyt-expose-details-war-crimes-american-led-volunteer-force-ukraine
Bombshell NYT Expose Details War Crimes By American-Led Volunteer Force In Ukraine
The last many weeks (or even months) of Ukraine coverage by
mainstream media has seen a major shift. One might observe that Western
reporters are actually starting to do their jobs for a change, and
digging into to 'inconvenient' truths and stories which a year ago no
outlet would have touched amid the general pro-Kyiv euphoria.
A military correspondent with The New York Times has issued the newest bombshell report this weekend which shines a spotlight on not just Ukrainian troops but American and foreign fighters who've volunteered with pro-Kyiv forces and have committed potential war crimes. The report, titled Killings of Surrendering Russians Divide an American-Led Unit,
reveals how US troops are participating in units which conduct
extra-judicial killings of Russians who have legitimately surrendered.
Much of the eyewitness accounts come from a German volunteer identified as Caspar Grosse, a medic in an all-foreign unit led by an American who says he witnessed clear war crimes and that his conscience has forced him to speak out...................
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https://words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/suicidal-society
Suicidal Society
I guess you remember how a
few years ago, the media called everyone who refused to wear a mask or
get vaccinated a ‘grandma killer’. To protect the elderly, to save every
minute of their lives – that was all what mattered.
Here is something to think about: Last week, I stumbled upon an article in a Dutch mainstream newspaper
which declared in a technical and deliberate way that the ‘mysteriously
persisting excess death’ has certain advantages: it saves the state
hundreds of millions of costs of taking care for old people. I checked
my calendar. An April fools’ joke maybe? No – it was no joke..............
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential
Published:July 05, 2024
By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been
killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli
invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as
reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The Ministry's figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities,
although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence
services,
the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses,
comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency
(UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible. Collecting
data is becoming increasingly difficult for the Gaza Health Ministry
due to the destruction of much of the infrastructure.
The Ministry has had to augment its usual reporting, based on people
dying in its hospitals or brought in dead, with information from
reliable media sources and first responders. This change has inevitably
degraded the detailed data recorded previously. Consequently, the Gaza
Health Ministry now reports separately the number of unidentified bodies
among the total death toll. As of May 10, 2024, 30% of the 35 091
deaths were unidentified. Some
officials and news agencies have used this development, designed to
improve data quality, to undermine the veracity of the data. However,
the number of reported deaths is likely an underestimate. The
non-governmental organisation Airwars undertakes detailed assessments of
incidents in the Gaza Strip and often finds that not all names of
identifiable victims are included in the Ministry's list. Furthermore, the UN estimates that, by Feb 29, 2024, 35% of buildings in the Gaza Strip had been destroyed, so the number of bodies still buried in the rubble is likely substantial, with estimates of more than 10 000. Armed
conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from
violence. Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to
be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such
as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases. The total
death toll is expected to be large given the intensity of this
conflict; destroyed health-care infrastructure; severe shortages of
food, water, and shelter; the population's inability to flee to safe
places; and the loss of funding to UNRWA, one of the very few
humanitarian organisations still active in the Gaza Strip. In
recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the
number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four
indirect deaths per one direct death
to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that
up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current
conflict in Gaza. Using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of
2 375 259, this would translate to 7·9% of the total population in the
Gaza Strip. A report from Feb 7, 2024, at the time when the direct death
toll was 28 000, estimated that without a ceasefire there would be
between 58 260 deaths (without an epidemic or escalation) and 85 750
deaths (if both occurred) by Aug 6, 2024.10...............
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