from Daily Sabah
Israel's military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva's resigned Monday over the failures surrounding the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion of southern Israel.
The decision makes Haliva the first senior figure to step down over his role in the deadliest assault in Israel's history and could set the stage for more resignations among Israel's top security brass, over the incursion that saw members of the Palestinian resistance group blast through Israel's border defenses and causing the deaths of around 1,200 people, while taking roughly 250 hostages into Gaza. That attack triggered Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, now in its seventh month.
"The intelligence directorate under my command did not live up to the task we were entrusted with. I carry that black day with me ever since, day after day, night after night. I will carry the horrible pain of the war with me forever," Haliva wrote in his resignation letter, which was provided by the military.
Haliva, as well as other military and security leaders, were widely expected to resign in response to the glaring failures that led up to Oct. 7 and the scale of its ferocity...
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