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Israeli Military Employed 'Hannibal Procedure' During Clashes at Qalandiyah

Refugee Camp

According to an initial ID in!estigation" #a$e may ha!e led t%o Israeli soldiers

into refugee camp" spar&ing clashes that left one Palestinian dead and se!eral

%ounded

(ili Cohen Mar )*" +)*, *+-*. PM

Israeli soldiers e/tricated from Palestinian refugee camp after their 0eep %as

hit by firebomb in Qalandiyah March *" +)*,Midabrim Communications 1

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3he Hannibal Directi!e- #hy Israel ris&s the life of the soldier being rescued

'4lac& riday'- 3he day Israel officially adopted its 'anything goes' morality#a$e may ha!e led Israeli soldiers into Qalandiyah refugee camp" spar&ing riot

Israeli soldiers e/tricated from Palestinian refugee camp after being hit by

firebomb

3he Israel Defense orces employed the contro!ersial 'Hannibal procedure' late

Monday night after t%o soldiers %ere attac&ed upon accidentally entered the

Qalandiyah refugee camp" according to an initial ID in!estigation 3he ID

e/pects a full in!estigation to re!eal that there %ere failures in 0udgement" and

those in!ol!ed in the incident may be tried at a later date3he in!estigation of an incident o!ernight bet%een Monday and 3uesday

re!ealed that an army dri!er and s5uad commander from the 6&et$ unit %ere

ma&ing use of the #a$e smartphone (P2 na!igational app and entered the camp

by mista&e

3he t%o separated after their !ehicle %as attac&ed in the camp and the

%hereabouts of one of the soldiers %as un&no%n for more than an hour 3he

ID in!o&ed the so1called Hannibal protocol" an order re5uiring e/traordinary

measures to head off the abduction of soldiers 3he army e/pects the complete

in!estigation into the incident in the refugee camp" %hich is in the #est 4an&

 0ust outside 7erusalem" to re!eal failings in the soldiers8 conduct %hich could

result in disciplinary proceedings

In the course of a night1time ID operation to rescue the soldiers" ten members

of the security forces %ere in0ured" fi!e soldiers and fi!e members of the

border police" one of %hom %as moderately %ounded 3he army reported serious

!iolence in the refugee camp o!ernight including gunfire and the thro%ing of

e/plosi!es" Moloto! coc&tails and stones 6ne Palestinian" %ho the army said %as

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armed" %as &illed by ID fire Defense Minister Moshe 9a8alon said he %as shot

in the head

https-::youtube:;ocha! 9aa&o!3he soldier %ho remained in the camp had a cellphone" %hich he used to contact

his commanders He also used his %eapon a number of times" firing into the air

Contact %ith the other soldier %as lost" and %hen the army reali$ed that contact

had been lost %ith him" the Hannibal protocol %as in!o&ed throughout the ID

Central Command area 3he soldier %as located more than an hour later

6!ernight" the ID e/tracted the army !ehicle" %hich had been completely

burned" from the refugee camp

6n 3uesday" in!estigators %ere e/amining the conduct of the soldiers and %hat

orders they recei!ed from their commanders 3he in!estigation is e/pected to

focus on %hat instructions the soldiers recei!ed before setting out on their

military mission in addition to the soldiers8 o%n conduct %hile on the road" an

army source said 3he soldiers %ere coming from the direction of the

settlement of 4eit El after letting a number of soldiers off at a base

Commenting on the incident" Defense Minister 9a8alon noted that the t%o had

left their !ehicle in a manner than made it difficult to locate at least one of

them and that large numbers of troops %ere deployed in the search 9a8alon had

praise for the 5uic& response of the troops that %ere dispatched 3he army" he

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added" %ould in!estigate e/actly %hat happened in connection %ith an incident in

%hich the t%o soldiers %ere not familiar %ith the area" adding that proper

conduct ?in an era in %hich #a$e is sho%ing the %ay@ %ill also be loo&ed at

(ili CohenHaaret$ Correspondent

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