Israeli military intelligence chief resigns over failure to prevent deadliest attack in Israel's history
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Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, the head of Israel's military intelligence directorate, resigned on Monday, making him the first senior official to step down since Hamas' deadly Oct. 7 attack.
"The intelligence directorate under my command did not live up to the task we were entrusted with. I carry that black day with me ever since, day after day, night after night. I will carry the horrible pain of the war with me forever," Haliva wrote in his resignation letter, according to a translation by the Associated Press.
Haliva is the first senior figure to step down after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel nearly six and a half months ago and rampaged through Israeli communities, killing 1,200 people – mostly civilians – and taking roughly 250 hostages back into Gaza.