Urgent.. Post-October 7 collapse.. After Halevy, the commander of the Southern Command of the occupation army resigned

Israeli media reported that Yaron Finkelman, commander of the Israeli army’s Southern Command, announced his resignation. The resignation comes after the announcement of the resignation of the Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevy, and his admission of the failure of the Israeli army in the Gaza war.

 

The Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevy, announced in a statement his resignation. From his position, and that he informed the Minister of Defense, Yisrael Katz, today, Tuesday, that he requests to end his term by the sixth of next March.

 

He justified Halevy said his resignation came “based on the recognition of the failure of the Israeli occupation army on October 7 and at the point in time when the Israeli army recorded great achievements and was present in the process of implementing the agreement to liberate the kidnapped.”

 

< p>Halevi added, “In the remaining period, I will complete investigations (into the army’s failures) and strengthen the Israeli army’s readiness to face security challenges.” I will transfer the leadership of the Israeli army in a qualitative and radical manner to my successor. “I conveyed the (resignation) message to the Minister of Security and the Prime Minister.” Halevy’s resignation comes in light of the tension in relations between him and the Israeli government, especially Katz, who rejected decisions taken by Halevy, including directing orders to Halevy to end military investigations into the army’s failures on October 7, not to carry out a process of rotating positions in the army, and not to appoint officers with the ranks of major general and brigadier general to positions. New. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called on Halevy several times in recent days to resign, and he said yesterday that if Halevy does not resign, “we will dismiss him.”1

 

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