HannibalDirectives

Israeli doctrine to try to prevent Palestinians kidnapping Israeli soldiers. The IDF should be prepared to kill snatch squads, even at the risk of killing the Israel prisoners, rather than let captured Israelis be used for prisoner swaps.

More detail and subtlety here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive

Allegedly revoked in 2016. But there's suspicion that they were in force during HamasAttackOnIsrael2024 and led to the large number of Israeli deaths.

For example here's an early claim (though from anti-Israel site, so may be propaganda).

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/a-growing-number-of-reports-indicate-israeli-forces-responsible-for-israeli-civilian-and-military-deaths-following-october-7-attack/

As time has gone on, the evidence that the IDF were employing something like this, has mounted.

https://archive.ph/20231221001524/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/if-israel-used-a-procedure-against-its-citizens-we-need-to-talk-about-it-now/0000018c-6383-de43-affd-f783212e0000