At about 9:06 AM on August 1, 2014 a group of three Israeli soldiers - Major Sarel, Staff Sergeant Lial Gidoni, and Lieutenant Goldin approached a home believing a tunnel was located in it and were ambushed by a Hamas unit of approximately 5-6 soldiers. During the brief gunfight, three Israeli soldiers were killed as well as one Hamas fighter.The remaining Hamas fighters took Lieutenant Goldin's body into the tunnel. At the time the Israelis believed Goldin might have survived the engagement. At around noon that day the Israeli army assessed from evidence found in that tunnel that he was dead.At 9:36 A.M. Colonel Ofer Winter of the Israeli army's Givati Brigade issued the “Hannibal Directive,” a classified protocol understood by many Israeli troops to mean “better a dead soldier than a captured solider.” This refers to the Israeli view held by some that it is better to kill their own MIA and PoWs rather than allow the Palestinians a propaganda victory.A Givati Brigade officer explains the logic of the operation: “In such an event you prefer a killed soldier rather than a soldier in enemy hands, like [Gilad] Shalit. I told myself ‘even if I bring back a corpse I have brought back the missing person’.According to the Israeli army, over the next 24 hours more than 2,000 bombs missiles and shells were fired into a concentrated area of Rafah - 1,000 in the next three hours alone.. One Israeli artillery soldier reported that his battery was "firing at maximum fire rate" into civilian areas.The one-ton bombs in this video were dropped to either kill the Israeli soldier's captors or to kill the Israeli soldier himself. The forensic footage was provided by Forensic Architecture as part of a https://blackfriday.amnesty.org/report.php labelling the event "Black Friday." Civilian casualties were in the low hundreds, with witnesses afterwards providing a near cartoonish depiction of explosions and gore as bodies (and body parts) were allegedly launched in the air.