WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s chief of staff Herzi Halevi is expected to “resign in the coming period,” Anadolu Agency reports.
After the Monday resignation of the regime’s head of military intelligence Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, it became clear that all officers responsible for failing to predict the 7 October, 2023 operation by Palestinian resistance movement Hamas would “go home, starting with the Chief of Staff,” private broadcaster Channel 12 said.
It said many officers have sought legal representation “in preparation for war investigations.”
The report claimed that Haliva had written his resignation letter to the Chief of Staff after receiving legal advice “assuming that all of his statements would also be presented to the investigation committee when it was formed.”
Haliva is the first in a series of commanders who “will be forced to retire in the near future,” it suggested, listing several other officers, including head of the Shin Bet domestic security agency Ronen Bar.
Concerns are rising over what Halevi’s replacement will mean for the security and political systems, the channel added.
It said that many commanders who were once seen as potential successors, including Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman and Maj. Gen. Eliezer Toledano, are now “seen as part of the failure.”
Political circles now expect Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the director general of the war ministry, to succeed Halevi, according to the source.
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement carried out the operation against Israel in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
During that operation, the resistance fighters captured an unprecedented number of Zionist troops.
In the event, the regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel’s military forces to attack the besieged Gaza Strip with a force “like never before.”
More than six months into the genocidal war that has killed over 34,000 Palestinians, Haliva has now called for a commission of inquiry to investigate the failures.
“I am convinced … that it is appropriate to set up a state inquiry commission that can thoroughly, deeply, comprehensively and critically investigate all the factors and circumstances that led to the tragic events.”