Israeli media on Thursday broadcast a replica of Sariel’s resignation letter.
Jerusalem:
The Israeli military mentioned on Thursday that the top of an elite intelligence unit will resign over the failure to forestall Hamas’s October 7 assault.
“The commander of the 8200 unit, (Brigadier Normal) Yossi Sariel, has knowledgeable his commanders and subordinates of his intention to finish his place,” the military mentioned in an announcement.
“The officer will conclude his function within the close to future.”
The celebrated and secretive Unit 8200 is accountable for decoding and analysing intercepts and different alerts intelligence.
Within the wake of October 7, Israel’s Army Intelligence Directorate was thrown right into a disaster that led to its commander, Main Normal Aharon Haliva, asserting his resignation in April 2024.
The military mentioned then that Haliva had requested to be relieved of his duties for the directorate’s failure to foil the October 7 assault.
Israeli media on Thursday broadcast a replica of Sariel’s resignation letter through which he requested for “forgiveness” for “not fulfilling the mission we had been entrusted with” on October 7.
In June, public broadcaster Kan disclosed the existence of an intelligence temporary ready by Unit 8200 in September 2023 that warned army officers of Hamas’s preparations for the assault.
Kan mentioned the Unit 8200 doc included particulars of elite Hamas fighters coaching for hostage-taking and plans for raids on army positions and Israeli communities in southern Israel.
The October 7 assault resulted within the deaths of greater than 1,205 individuals, principally civilians, based on an AFP tally based mostly on official Israeli figures.
Included in that depend are hostages who had been killed in captivity.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive towards Hamas has killed no less than 41,118 individuals in Gaza, based on the territory’s well being ministry. The UN rights workplace says a lot of the useless are girls and youngsters.
Netanyahu has repeatedly refused to open an official inquiry into October 7 till the conflict in Gaza is over.
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