Ryan Grim
Role at the time: Co-host, Breaking Points; co-founder, Drop Site News
Statement summary
On Breaking Points, Ryan Grim said leaked footage from an Israeli command room on October 7 shows officials accepting that abducted Israelis could be hit, and that a tank shelled a kibbutz house with hostages inside.
“Now we have this footage of them basically saying just do it, and if you hit the people who, the Israelis who were abducted, that's part of it.”
Breaking Points segment in which Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss footage from an Israeli command room on October 7. Quotations were transcribed from the video, with repeated words removed.
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The reference point is Israeli fire on October 7, 2023, under or in the manner of the Hannibal Directive, that put Israeli captives at risk of being killed by Israeli forces. Grim asserts that Israeli forces knowingly fired on Israelis, including hostages, and presents the footage as evidence of a Hannibal-style order, which condemns the conduct. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, but he states the claims without qualification.