Aharon Haliva is the first senior Israeli political or military official to resign over security failures surrounding the attacks carried out by Hamas and Islamic Jihad that day.
The head of the Intelligence services of the Israeli Army, Aharon Haliva, presented his resignation this Monday for his “responsibility” in the attacks carried out on October 7 by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which left some 1,200 dead and nearly 240 people kidnapped, and has demanded the establishment of an investigative committee to analyze the security failures surrounding the event.
“The head of the Intelligence Division, Aharon Haliva, in coordination with the head of the Army (Herzi Halevi), has requested that his mandate be terminated due to his command responsibility as head of the National Security Agency in the events of the October 7,” the Army said in a statement.
In his resignation note, Haliva highlighted that “the Intelligence Division was not up to the task entrusted to it” and acknowledged that “he knew that a great responsibility was attached to authority.”
Likewise, he has called for the creation of a state committee “that can investigate and determine exhaustively, in depth and precisely, all the factors and circumstances that led to these difficult events.”Haliva becomes the first senior political or military official in Israel to resign due to security failures surrounding the attacks carried out by Hamas and Islamic Jihad on October 7, which were followed by an Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip that has left nearly 34,100 dead to date, amid fear of the expansion of the conflict in the region.
Source: Eitb
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