Israel's Haaretz newspaper finds documents confirming that Israeli commanders repeatedly ordered their forces to stop Israelis being taken into Gaza on October 7 at all costs, even if it meant killing them.

Haaretz reports that this execution order – known as the Hannibal directive – 'indicates that many of the kidnapped people were at risk, exposed to Israeli gunfire'.

One such order, says a source inside the military, 'was meant to turn the area around the border fence [with Gaza] into a killing zone'.

Don't hold your breath waiting for the 'free' western establishment media to acknowledge this or any of the other many challenges to its increasingly threadbare narrative script about October 7.