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Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi resigns from office amidst recriminations in the Israeli military force about the conduct of the Israeli war on Gaza.
The news announcement is breaking on the social media. Halevi who holds the rank of Lieutenant General will officially resign as of 6 March 2025 and has informed Defense Minister Israel Katz of his decision.
His decision to quit as army boss follows a string of resignations by rank officers over the way the Israeli war on Gaza was being conducted and which it lasted 15 months.
Also with his resignations comes the announcement of the Southern Command Yaron Finkelman who says he wants to resign from his post.
Halevi he said he is resigning because he wants to take responsibility over the army’s security failure over the 7 October, 2023 debacle in which Hamas fighters enroaded the fence surrounding Gaza and captured about 250 Israeli hostages and in which up to 1200 people were killed.
Over the past months Halevi said he would resign but kept going on because of the bloody war in which over 45,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza and over 96,000 wounded.
Halevi leaves the army with an arrest warrant on his head together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. It was issued against them back in November 2024 for his atrocities in Gaza.
The war on Gaza, described as a genocide and ethnic cleansing created much tension within the Israeli rank-and-file over the conduct of the war but fell well short of a rebellion.
