20240405 - news - Reuters falsely reports 'friendly fire' (click 'read more' to read why it is false)

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In military terms, "friendly fire" means a weapon fire coming from one's own side that causes accidental injury or death to one's own forces.

However, Reuters (and many more media) used "friendly fire" in the wrong context, as it wasn't by accident but the use of a doctrine.

The Hannibal Directive, also translated as Hannibal Procedure or Hannibal Protocol, is a controversial procedure used by the Israeli armed war belligerent to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces.

In the context of "October 7th," an Israeli Apache helicopter gunship was sent into the air to fire on everyone who was going to cross the border into Gaza, and those who were captured by the resistance before being brought into Gaza. 

In a kibbutz, an Israeli battle tank fired on a house where the crew thought resistance fighters were holding colonists. The tank crew killed a baby and its parents.