Israel’s Maj Gen Aharon Haliva, in his final speech as head of Military Intelligence, took responsibility for failing to provide a warning ahead of Hamas’s October 7 attack. In his resignation speech, Haliva hinted that he expected other officers to also take responsibility for their failures. The outgoing head of Israeli military intelligence said the failures of October 7 will haunt him for the rest of his life. Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s office strongly denied reports that Israeli forces might withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor in a potential deal with Hamas.
