Brigadier General Barak Hiram will not be appointed as commander of the Gaza Division this summer. This, after ordering on Black Sabbath to fire tank shells at a building in Kibbutz Bari where Hamas terrorists were entrenched - and as a result 13 Israeli hostages were killed.
Senior officers harshly criticized Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi for not speaking publicly and presenting his position regarding the incident in question as the army commander. Hiram said that after unsuccessful negotiations with the terrorists, he ordered the tank to "break in, even at the cost of civilian casualties"