Mehdi Hasan Examines How Many Israelis Were Killed by Israel on October 7
October 8, 2026
HOW MANY ISRAELIS WERE KILLED BY ISRAEL ON OCTOBER 7TH?
It’s been three years since October 7th. And the question Western media still won’t touch? Israeli media already answered it.
Meet the “Hannibal Directive”, the secret order that let Israeli soldiers open fire on their own people, hostages and civilians included, rather than let a single Israeli get taken alive. Mehdi Hasan pulls up the receipts: Israeli footage, Israeli coverage, Israeli military officials admitting on camera that a “Mass Hannibal” went off that day.
Let that sink in. The people Israel claims to be avenging might have been killed by Israel itself. And the West has spent three years pretending it never happened.
“It would be nice if Western media gave a damn. They don’t. We do.”
Three years of silence. Three years of a one-sided story. Time’s up.
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English Script:
Mehdi Hassan: There’s a lot we know about the horrific attacks on October the 7th, 2023. But there is one key question we don’t know the answer to. We do know it was the deadliest attack in Israel’s 78 year history. We know Hamas and others from Gaza crossed into Israel and killed innocents, took hostages, committed war crimes. And that’s according to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the International Criminal Court. But three years on from that brutal attack, the question that remains completely unanswered and frankly, unasked is how many people on October the 7th were killed not by Hamas or other Palestinian armed groups, but by Israel for three years? A lot of people have tried to dismiss any kind of discussion along these lines as a pro Hamas conspiracy theory, or even a blood libel against the Jewish state. Here in the West, the only media outlets that have really covered this very controversial topic have been on the fringes. The likes of Electronic Intifada, The Gray Zone, Mondo Weiss, Middle East Eye. It’s really kind of outrageous that mainstream Western media outlets have totally ignored this question, when the truth is that the Israeli media has not. You might think this startling admission from the former Israeli defense minister, who is wanted on charges of war crimes by the ICC, might have grabbed headlines across the West. Yet The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, the BBC and the vast, vast majority of mainstream media outlets across the West ignored Gallant’s remarks. As a study by the British press watchdog media, and concluded at the time, the former defense ministers admission was buried by major UK mainstream media as well as the wider Western media. So on this third anniversary of the October 7th attacks, let us here at the Zeteo discuss what exactly is the Hannibal directive and where did it come from, how and why was it activated three years ago on the Israeli Gaza border as gallant admitted it was? And how many Israelis were killed by Israel as a result of it on October the 7th?
