Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe Israeli military official would not elaborate on what led to the revocation of the Hannibal procedure. PhotoJERUSALEM — The Israeli military has canceled a contentious directive known as the Hannibal procedure, which calls for the use of maximum force to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers, even at the risk of harming them. Senior officers drew up the original Hannibal procedure in the 1980s after two Israeli soldiers were captured by Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Hannibal procedure was last invoked, with devastating consequences, during the war in Gaza in 2014. But both Haaretz and the military official said the chief of staff had ordered the revocation of the Hannibal procedure before the draft report was distributed to officials.

Source: New York Times June 28, 2016 17:37 UTC