Israel's top spy resigns over failings that led to Hamas attack of October 7
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ISRAEL’S military intelligence chief resigned today for failures that allowed Hamas to conduct its October 7 cross-border assault, which killed over 1,100 people and took about 250 hostage.
The Hamas raid from Gaza, which Israel has held under an illegal siege since 2007, prompted Israel’s full-scale invasion of the territory which is now in its sixth month and has killed more than 34,000.
Major-General Aharon Haliva announced: “The intelligence directorate under my command did not live up to the task we were entrusted with.
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