Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva is the first general to leave his position in Israel’s military over the failures leading up to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, head of the Israel Defense Forces’ intelligence department, resigned from his position and will retire, he said in a statement Monday, citingHaliva is the first general of the IDF staff to leave his position because of the failures that led to the attack and the, Israeli media reported. The surprise attack killed an estimated 1,200 people, the largest loss of life in a single day in the country’s history. Militants also took 253 hostages back to Gaza.
Referring to the Hamas attack, Haliva wrote that he has “been carrying that black day ever since, day and night. I will live with the horrible pain of the war every day.”, following battle plans built on open-source materials, Israeli intelligence officers said in December.
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