The head of Israel’s military intelligence resigns

The Associated Press reports:

• The head of Israel’s military intelligence resigned Monday over the failures surrounding Hamas’ unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, the military said. This makes him the first senior figure to resign for his role in the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.
• Major General Aharon Haliva’s resignation could pave the way for more fallout from Israel’s top security force over the Hamas attack, when militants stormed through Israel’s border defenses, rampaging through Israeli communities unchallenged for hours and killing 1,200 people, most of them civilians, while taking roughly 250 hostages to Gaza. That attack marked the start of the war against Hamas in Gaza, now in its seventh month.
• “The Intelligence Directorate under my command did not fulfill the task entrusted to us. Since then I have carried that black day with me, day after day, night after night. I will carry the terrible pain of the war with me forever,” Haliva wrote in his resignation letter, which was provided by the army.