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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.
