{"id":24947,"date":"2024-07-11T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T05:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24947"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:52:11","slug":"hannibal-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hannibal-directive\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Hannibal Directive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Hannibal Directive:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>purported operational doctrine<\/strong> of <strong>using maximum force<\/strong> to ensure no soldiers are captured, even if it means sacrificing military and civilian lives, a media investigation has found.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as <strong>Hannibal Procedure and Hannibal Protocol.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The expression refers to a purported <strong>Israel Defence Forces (IDF)<\/strong> operational policy that aims to <strong>pre-empt politically painful prisoner<\/strong> swaps by immediately eliminating everyone in the vicinity of a captive Israeli soldier, even if it poses a risk to the soldier himself.<\/li>\n<li>The full text of the purported doctrine has never been published, even though its existence has been an open secret that has long been discussed by soldiers and analysts.<\/li>\n<li>It is believed that the policy was named after the <strong>Carthaginian general Hannibal<\/strong>, who apparently chose to kill himself when faced with the possibility of capture by the Romans in c. 181 BCE.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin of the doctrine<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Hannibal Doctrine was formulated <strong>as a response to the Jibril Agreement<\/strong> of 1985 in which 1,150 Palestinian prisoners were exchanged for three Israelis who had been seized in Lebanon by the Syria-based militant group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Criticism:<\/strong> The Hannibal Doctrine has been criticised by legal experts for its disregard for human life.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/everyday-explainers\/what-is-israels-hannibal-directive-9445154\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Death before capture: What is Israel\u2019s Hannibal Directive?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannibal Directive  is a purported operational doctrine of using maximum force to ensure no soldiers are captured, even if it means sacrificing military and civilian lives, a media investigation has found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}