Israel’s ex-justice minister calls on military chief to quit

from al Jazeera

Haim Ramon has said the chief of staff of Israel’s armed forces, Herzi Halevi, should step down after half a year of war in Gaza.

Halevi, in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, took responsibility for Israel’s security failure and said the military would face a full accounting of it after waging war.

Ramon, in comments carried by Israel’s Arutz Sheva media, said it is now time for Halevi to “make good on [his] responsibility and resign”.

“I believe and hope that Halevi’s resignation will spark a chain reaction, and the entire senior command of the [Israeli military], which is responsible for the failure, will stand up and resign following the example set by the chief of staff,” Ramon was quoted as saying...

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