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Flurry of resignations by Gaza war commanders further jolts Israel

Thursday, 23 January 2025 6:28 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 23 January 2025 6:33 PM ]

Major general Yaron Finkelman, head of the Israeli miliatry’s southern command (L) and chief of staff lieutenant general Herzi Halevi are seen in Rafah area of southern Gaza Strip in December 2024.

Israel's largest newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has listed the most high-profile Israeli military figuers who have resigned over failures in the run-up to the Gaza war and after that.

It named chief of the general staff Herzi Halevi, commander of the southern region Yaron Finkelman, commander of the Gaza division Avi Rosenfeld, head of the military intelligence division Aharon Haliva, commander of intelligence unit 8200 Yossi Sariel, and commander of the northern brigade in the Gaza Strip Haim Cohen.

Halevi, according to the paper, took over as chief of staff of the Israeli army at a chaotic time, and was appointed by a transitional administration.

He assumed office at a time when the chief of staff was clashing with the political echelon and in the midst of the judicial overhaul controversy that shook Israel and created serious divisions, it said.

The Israeli military failed miserably in confronting a surprise attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which dealt a serious blow to the regime's myth of invincibility.

Israeli intel unit chief quits over Oct. 7 failure; chief of staff to leave in Dec.

High-ranking members of the Israeli military have reportedly resigned as the regime’s devastating war on Gaza rages on.

Reserve Israeli army general: We are on brink of civil war

Meanwhile, reserve general in the Israeli army Isaac Barak warned of an imminent civil war in the settler society.

He said while Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements have returned to their pre-war status, the Israeli army has fallen apart and that any action to return to war would be disastrous.

“Hamas and Islamic Jihad were able to recuperate. The Israeli society is on the brink of a civil war. The reality is that if the war had continued, the Israeli army would not have been able to defeat Hamas,” Barak said.

The Israeli army, he said, is unable to remain in the places it occupied in the Gaza Strip, and cannot destroy hundreds of kilometers of Hamas tunnels.

If the Gaza war had continued, hundreds more people would have been killed by the Israeli army; all our prisoners would have died; and Israel would have suffered a terrible disaster, the Israeli general stated.

“The Israeli army failed in its objective of weakening Hamas. Hamas continues to dominate the underground cities in the Gaza Strip with the upper hand, and with thousands of young people joining the ranks of the movement, the losses that Hamas suffered during the war have been offset,” Barak said.

He emphasized that the Israeli army is tired and worn out.

“Any attempt to return to war in the Gaza Strip has already failed, and will result in the deaths of hundreds of more Israeli troops and the injury of thousands more.”

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