Israel's military intelligence chief resigns over 7 October attacks
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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The Israel Defense Forces said Major General Aharon Haliva would retire once his successor was selected. Also, the UK parliament prepares to vote on a bill to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, and thousands of Filipino and US troops begin three weeks of military exercises.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Janet Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 22nd of April, |
| 0:08.8 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.6 | The head of Israeli military intelligence has resigned. |
| 0:14.0 | The first senior Israeli figure to step down over the Hamas attacks on October the 7th. |
| 0:19.7 | The President of Ecuador has won a referendum for tougher security measures to combat violent drugs gangs. |
| 0:26.0 | Filipino and US troops begin joint military exercises at a time of tensions between the Philippines and China. Also in this podcast... |
| 0:36.0 | And they never found the body because there used to be... |
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| 0:43.0 | We hear how President Biden's latest gaff has offended people in Papua New Guinea. |
| 0:49.0 | As we record this podcast, a court in New York is due to start hearing opening |
| 0:56.7 | arguments in the unprecedented criminal trial of Donald Trump. A jury will |
| 1:01.7 | hear initial evidence from prosecutors and |
| 1:04.3 | defense lawyers and will bring you the outcome of that first day of the trial in our |
| 1:08.7 | next edition of the Global News Podcast. But for this edition, we start in Israel, where the head of military intelligence has resigned |
| 1:16.4 | over his role in failing to stop the Hamas attacks on October 7th. |
| 1:21.3 | Major General Aharonhaleva is the highest ranking Israeli |
| 1:24.7 | official to step down over the attacks in which well over a thousand people were |
| 1:29.5 | killed. Israel's opposition leader Yaya Lapid said his resignation was justified and the |
| 1:34.9 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should follow suit. In Gaza itself the Hamas |
| 1:40.4 | authorities say they've now retrieved around 200 bodies from a mass grave |
| 1:45.0 | at a hospital where there was heavy fighting with Israeli forces. |
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