TEL AVIV — The head of Israeli armed forces intelligence has declared his resignation, getting the initial senior official to phase down immediately after the failure to prevent the Oct. 7 Hamas-led assault.
“The intelligence division underneath my command did not live up to the endeavor we had been entrusted with. I have carried that black working day with me at any time due to the fact, working day immediately after working day, night soon after night, I will have the suffering with me permanently,” Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva wrote in a letter of resignation.
Other senior protection officers — like the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency — have indicated they intend to resign right after the war in Gaza.
Haliva’s resignation may well insert to stress for accountability from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is dealing with sustained protests contacting for early elections. Demonstrators say they have lost faith in his govt.
Netanyahu has so much resisted calls for an early vote. And when he has promised to set up a nationwide commission to investigate the failures of Oct.7, he has not yet supplied any timetable for when the probe would start or when it would report.
A identical commission seemed into Israel’s failure to get ready for the joint Egyptian-Syrian assault launched in October 1973. It advised the firing of the then-navy intelligence chief together with many other generals.
Haliva explained he thought that for “the sake of the Condition of Israel, for the sake of the men and women of Israel, and for the sake of upcoming generations” a national fee should examine the Hamas assault in a “thorough, in-depth, thorough, and precise method.”
Haliva is not predicted to resign instantly. He explained in his letter he would remain in put up until eventually “the completion of the investigative phase” and until eventually a successor is appointed.
