Ousted senior IDF reserves officer publicly slams his commander as ‘immature and unreliable’

A senior reserves officer, who was booted from the military and is under investigation for alleged “severe” security violations, accuses his commander of being an “immature and unreliable” person, in a letter published by Channel 12 news.

Brig. Gen. (res.) Oren Solomon, a member of the hawkish HaBithonistim group and who was involved in the Gaza Division’s probe into its failures related to Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, has claimed that he was dismissed from reserve duty because the probe found fault in the higher echelons of the military.

The IDF has rejected the claim and said that his investigation is related to “severe operational security violations” by Solomon and not related to the October 7 investigation he was involved in.

In a letter published by the network, dated March 10 and addressed to IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, Solomon accuses the current Gaza Division chief, Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram, of being a person “without values, immature and unreliable. He works to promote his name and glorify it, and does not understand the magnitude of the hour.”

Hiram was not the commander of the Gaza Division on or before October 7, though he was involved in the fighting that day as the commander of the 99th Division. Hiram came under criticism for his actions on October 7, and they were investigated in other IDF probes.

Solomon says that Hiram “is acting in a manner that lacks values, is unprofessional, and lacks courage and leadership. This is to cover for his inability to accept professional and operational criticism, and to cover up serious errors on October 7 and afterward in the division.”