The October 7th attack was not a surprise to Israeli officials. Evidence shows that Israel possessed Hamas’s battle plans for over a year, with intelligence agencies and analysts raising alarms that were ignored. Foreign governments, including Egypt, also provided advance warnings. The Netanyahu government allegedly suppressed this intelligence. On the day of the attack, the IDF reportedly enacted the ‘Hannibal Directive,’ a controversial procedure to prevent hostage-taking by killing both militants and Israeli citizens, leading to a ‘mass Hannibal’ event where fleeing civilians were killed
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