"The Hannibal Directive" has been the controversial policy of Israel to prevent the capture of it's soldiers since 1986.
The 'official Israeli death toll from Oct 7 is 900, not the 1400 that is bandied around, with approximately half being military and the other half settlers that are all armed to the teeth.
Many of the Israeli deaths were from "friendly fire". Helicopters fired hellfire rockets into their own military bases that Hamas had over run and there is evidence that tank shells were fire into Israeli occupied homes to dislodge Hamas militants with the full knowledge Israeli citizens were inside.
This is why the Israelis went about bombing Gaza indiscriminately for the past 3 week with little to no regard for the lives of the Israeli hostages and certainly no regard for the lives of Palestinian civilians, The Palestinian death toll is now more than 8000 with an unknown amount of men women and children under the rubble of bombed out buildings.
It is worth noting that the testimony from the hostages that have been released is that they were fed well and treated with kindness, all of which was recorded on video upon their release.
Hannibal Directive - Wikipedia
