National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir slams IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi after the military announces the dismissal of two officers for their involvement in a deadly drone strike against a group of aid workers in Gaza earlier this week.
“The chief of staff’s decision to remove senior officers amounts to the abandonment of troops in the middle of a war,” he says in a post on X, formerly Twitter, adding that it was a “grave mistake that conveys weakness.”
He says that even if mistakes were made, during a war “soldiers should be supported and certainly not made to stand trial in a field court.”
The probe, publicized earlier today, found that the strike was ordered against the convoy of World Central Kitchen vehicles after officers suspected they carried a Hamas gunman, despite a low level of confidence, and against army regulations.
The officers did not identify the vehicles as belonging to WCK when the strike was ordered, according to the investigation.
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