In October 2023, Hamas attacked military bases and settlements along the Gaza border, killing and capturing Israelis, in response to "the daily crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and their holy sites, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque," according to the movement.
Israeli officials consider what happened on October 7 to be the biggest Israeli intelligence and military failure, which has caused great damage to the image of Tel Aviv and its army in the world.
According to the commission's report, the decisions included terminating the service of a number of reserve generals, including former head of Military Intelligence "Aman" Aharon Haliva, former commander of the Southern Command Yaron Finkelman, and former head of the Operations Division Udi Basiok.
It should be noted that these officers were previously dismissed from their leadership positions, and the new punitive measures include the complete termination of their reserve service in the army.
Zamir also ended the reserve service of Gaza Division commander Avi Rosenfeld, while the division's intelligence officer was dismissed from the army entirely, according to the agency.
The agency stated that other officers, including Air Force Commander Tomer Bar, current Military Intelligence Chief Shlomi Binder, and Navy Commander David Saar-Salma, received "leadership reprimands," without any dismissal action being taken against them.
She noted that Haliva, and former Unit 8200 commander Yossi Shriel, did not attend the hearings today (Sunday), "for scheduling reasons," and that they will appear before the court later before the proceedings are completed and their reserve service is terminated.
The broadcasting authority said these steps come about two weeks after Zamir received the comprehensive report prepared by retired General Sami Turgeman on the failures that preceded the October 7 attack. No immediate comment was received from the officers affected by the measures.
Several senior Israeli commanders and officers who were in office during the events of October 7 have already resigned, including then-Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, Southern Command chief Yaron Finkelman, Operations Division chief Oded Basiuk, and Aman chief Aharon Haliva, and have acknowledged their responsibility for failing to prevent the attack.
The ceasefire agreement came into effect on October 10, 2025, ending a two-year Israeli genocide in Gaza that had begun on October 8, 2023, with the support of Washington, and left more than 69,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 170,000 wounded.
