The head of the Israeli military secret services, Aharon Haliva, resigned this Monday due to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
“The Secret Service department failed to cope with the task assigned to us. As I carried out my duties, I knew that with power comes great responsibility,” said Aharon Khaliwa in a letter announcing the reform, quoted Haaretz. The head of Israel’s military intelligence agencies called for the creation of a government commission of inquiry “that can investigate and identify in an exhaustive, in-depth, comprehensive and accurate manner all the factors and circumstances that led to the grave events.”
Aharon Haliva becomes the first senior Israeli figure to resign in the wake of the Hamas attack, which has killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and sent 250 captured into the Gaza Strip, where Israel’s military campaign has continued for six months. .
Shortly after the attack, in October 2023, Khaliwa took “blame” for not preventing the Hamas attack.