State Comptroller Yosef Shapira has spoken out against the IDF Hannibal Directive, which calls on doing whatever necessary to prevent terrorists from abducting a fellow soldier. The IDF’s unofficial “Hannibal Directive’, which was established in the 1980, calls for taking extreme measures to prevent the abduction of a colleague, even killing him rather than permitting him from being captured by the enemy. This policy has been the subject of many debates but it is now likely to be abandoned.
Shapira wants to see the directive amended so that only an officer of the position of brigade commander and higher can authorize using the directive.
The logic behind the protocol is to prevent the kidnapping of soldiers by the enemy only to use them as bargaining chips in the future. It is reported IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Gadi Eizenkott has revoked the directive because he feels it leaves too much room for interpretation by soldiers in the field.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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6 Responses
Which normal person would want to serve in an army that would not do everything to prevent abduction?
The IDF abandons its soldiers to die in Gaza and then puts them in jail for killing terrorists and now official policy is to let them get kidnapped by HAMAS. Why would anyone allow their children to serve in such an army?
I couldn’t have said that better!
#1: did you read what “do everything to prevent abduction” means in this case?
#2 Did you read the article? have you lost your mind? I have served and still do, so will my sons, thats who will continue to serve.
#5 better to follow daas Torah and have a safer life by going to beis medrash. The Zionists are neo-Hellenists.