Dar es Salaam, March 17 -- ISRAEL: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to remove Shin Bet director Ronen Bar. Earlier, the domestic security agency admitted to failures ahead of the October 7 Hamas attack, which resulted in over 1,200 people being killed and 250 taken hostage.

“Due to ongoing lack of trust, I have decided to bring a proposal to the government to end the tenure of the Shin Bet chief, Ronen Bar,” Netanyahu said in a video statement on Sunday. He argued that “this step is crucial in order to restore the organization, to achieve all of our war objectives, and to prevent the next tragedy.”

The prime minister accused Bar of leading “an ongoing campaign of ...