News - Middle East: The spy chief of Israel’s military has resigned after accepting responsibility for the failure to stop Hamas's unprecedented attack of October 7 last year.

Major General Aharon Haliva wrote in his resignation letter Monday, “After more than six months, and at the same time as the investigations begin, I would like to resign from my position.”
Haliva, who had previously taken public responsibility for the failures, has become the first senior Israel figure to acknowledge that Tel Aviv had failed to foresee and prevent Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, “whose consequences are severe and painful.”
“The intelligence division under my command did not live up to the task assigned to it,” he wrote.
“I have carried that black day with me ever since, day after day, night after night. I will carry the horrible pain of the war with me for ever.”
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement carried out the operation against Israel in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.