Declassified records from the Southern Brigade command center document the morning of June 25, 2006, including the report of a missing soldier at 06:40 and the activation of the Hannibal directive four minutes later, as reported by Army Radio. The logs cover the first hours before the abductee was identified as Cpl. Gilad Shalit.
Twenty years after Hamas operatives abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit near the Gaza border, the IDF archive has declassified the Southern Brigade command center's operational log from June 25, 2006. Released through Army Radio, the log records the early timeline: a missing-soldier report at 06:40, activation of the Hannibal directive at 06:44, and Shalit's identification as the abductee by 08:00.
The publication follows the release earlier today of newly surfaced footage documenting the abduction itself, as The Zioneer reported. The logs provide the command center's raw timeline, showing how the initial "missing soldier" report rapidly escalated into a full abduction response. Shalit was held in Gaza for over five years until a prisoner exchange in October 2011.
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