The head of Israel’s intelligence service resigns over his “responsibility” for the October 7 Hamas attacks

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Aharon Haliva is the first senior Israeli political or military official to resign over security lapses surrounding the attacks carried out that day by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

The Israeli army’s intelligence chief, Aharon Haliva, resigned on Monday over his “responsibility” for the October 7 attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which killed around 1,200 and killed nearly 240 people. kidnapped and has demanded the establishment of a commission of inquiry to analyze security issues surrounding the event.

“The head of the Intelligence Department, Aharon Haliva, in coordination with the head of the military (Herzi Halevi), has requested that his mandate be terminated due to his command responsibility as head of the National Security Service in the events of October 7. the army said in a statement.

In his resignation letter, Haliva emphasized that “the intelligence department was not up to the task entrusted to it” and acknowledged that “he knew that there was a great responsibility attached to the authority.”

Likewise, he has called for the creation of a state commission “that can exhaustively, deeply and accurately investigate and determine all the factors and circumstances that led to these difficult events.” Haliva becomes the first senior political or military official in Israel to resign over security lapses surrounding the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which were followed by an Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip that has so far left nearly 34,100 dead , for fear of the expansion of the conflict in the region.

Source: EITB

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