Resigning commander of the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate, Aharon Haliva celebrated the Seder night together with staff of the Intelligence Division at a base near Jerusalem.
According to Nir Dvori's report on Channel 12 News, Haliva planned to resign before Passover, but the tensions that evolved with Iran delayed his resignation announcement. Haliva told people close to him that he felt relieved: “I said I would do it and I did. It will take time to digest everything,” he concluded.
Despite Haliva's announcement – Eyal Eshel, father of Roni Eshel, who was killed in the Nahal Oz base on October 7th, promised, "We will not leave him alone. We will persecute him, until the end. Private Aharon Haliva – that's our goal."
"We will chase him every step of the way," Eshel continued. "He and the entire chain of command that is responsible for the failure and grief that they have caused the State of Israel. We will follow these people. He shouldn’t think that by giving this letter he has waived his responsibilities. We have lost the war. I want to look in the eyes of the lawyers of those people. Is it appropriate that they are representing these people? There are too many victims. Too much frustration and bereavement here."
"The organizational culture in the IDF is one of the failures of the State of Israel," condemned the bereaved father. "And this is what Roni and the other lookout girls were spoon fed, every day, hour after hour. No one looked at them or spoke to them. All these wonderful girls that we are mourning and are no longer with us."