Israel’s military has announced it intelligence chief’s resignation on Monday after taking responsibility for failures leading to the Hamas attack on October 7, This is as Israel carried out more shelling in war-battered Gaza overnight.
General Aharon Haliva is the first top Israeli official to step down for failing to prevent the Hamas attack, which triggered the war in Gaza and brought the government and military under intense scrutiny in Israel.
in his resignation letter Haliva sated that the intelligence division under his command did not live up to the task they were entrusted hence the reason for his resignation.
Meanwhile Israel has lashed out at reports that its top ally the United States was considering sanctioning the military’s ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda battalion over alleged human rights abuses in the West Bank from before the war.
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