Top Israeli Military Chief Quits His Job Over 7 October

Israeli chief of staff Herzi Halevi made a dramatic announcement in the Israeli media he would resign in the coming December.

This piece of news is currently trending on the social with many speculating over the reasons for his acquittal amidst a war on Gaza that continues full blast ahead.  

His resignation, along with a string of others is being made for the failure to stop the 7 October attacks, 2023 in which Hamas fighters invaded Israeli territory took back to Gaza 250 hostages in never-before events in which up to 1200 Israelis were killed.

Israel’s Channel 12 broadcaster said Halevi decided to step down at the end of this year, pending the conclusion of investigations into the Israeli military’s failure to respond effectively to the Hamas attacks according to Anadolu.

Halevi disclosed his plan to step down during a conversation with his associates, indicating that he believes the end of the year is an appropriate time to announce his resignation, reports continued.

By late December, Tel Aviv is expected to complete its investigations into the army’s failure to thwart Hamas’s attack on 7 October, the Turkish news agency stated.

Halevi’s expected resignation comes after chief of the Israeli army’s intelligence Unit 8200 Brigadier General Yossi Sariel quit his post over the failure to prevent the 7 October events, according to Israeli media.

He is one of seven top army officials who resigned after criticism from different sections of the political and military establishments for failing to protect Israelis and stop the Hamas incursion.

In the last three months, the Israeli army’s Gaza Division commander, Brigadier General Avi Rosenfeld, head of the Shin Bet security agency’s Southern District, and an intelligence officer in the Gaza division have all resigned because of pressure.

On 3 September Tamir Yadai, the chief of the Israeli army’s ground forces, resigned for “personal reasons” after three years in his post.

Major General Aharon Haliva, head of the Israeli army’s Military Intelligence Directorate, resigned on 22 April for failing to predict the Hamas attacks into the Israeli territories that sorround Gaza.

And before that Brigadier General Amit Saar, head of the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Research Division, resigned in the first week of February 2024 “due to personal reasons, unrelated to the unit’s failure to sound the alarm about the 7 October attack, but over illness,” according to Israeli media reports.

More than 41,100 people, mostly women and children, have since been killed and over 95,100 injured, since Israel started its military offensive on Gaza after 7 October.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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Tents by The Sea!

CROSSFIREARABIA – This time there is no commentary from Ibrahim Isam like he usually provides

However Maryanne Sanders wrote on his page:

This is a truly real photo Ibrahim. It shows us your daily reality – the tents, the density of people. Where is the personal escape? Maybe the sea. May normality return soon.

Another, Kholoud Hamatto said:

Usually, summer is a time to enjoy the sea and sunshine and create beautiful memories… Yet our people are forced to live in tents on the beach, deprived of the most basic necessities of human life, privacy, and dignity.

How can a place meant for joy and respite become a shelter? Hasn’t the time come for these chapters of our Nakba to end, and for our people to reclaim their right to a safe, dignified, and humane life?

Bernadette Dunn lamented:

At a quick first glance of the Gaza shoreline it almost appears as a type of festive gathering with lots of people and a rainbow of colorful tents.

Once one picks up the phone to see the real picture it becomes all too clear that this scene is anything but festive.

I have no words except to express my sorrow and shame that this is the reality of the lives of Gaza and it’s people today.

I’m sorry you all are living this nightmare while the 🌎 stands by and does nothing.

I’m ashamed to be witness to this. I’m ashamed that my country (USA) is so involved in causing and perpetuating the suffering of the Palestinians and the destruction of your homeland.

I pray 🙏🏼 for change to come fast.

I pray that the world’s “leaders” will come to it’s or our senses and STOP this genocide.

A third year of this insane genocide will begin in less than one month as innocent people continue to be slaughtered and what little remains of the infrastructure of Gaza is bombed, burned and bulldozed down.

Dear God 🙏🏼before another funeral or another child dies by a sniper’s bullet before she attends her first day of school make this travesty end. Gaza deserves to live.

Let the healing begin

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