 Israel invoked the so-called Hannibal Directive, meaning that Israel killed its own people rather than see them taken captive and bartered in exchange for release of Palestinian hostages held in Israeli dungeons. Though independent news outlets including Manda Weiss, Electronic Intifada, and The Gray Zone reported on Israeli October 7 massacres shortly after they happened, most corporate media outlets in the U.S. and Europe have not veered from Israel's debunked,