Netanyahu denies prior talks with bin Zayed

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied the reports claiming that an Emirati official told him during a secret phone conversation before Hamas's attack on October 7 that the group was preparing to carry out the assault, and that he did not pass this information to security agencies. He confirmed that security authorities had no record of any visit by the Emirati representative to his office during that period, and that there had been no contact between him and the Emirati leader since early September. Netanyahu based his denial on security investigations that confirmed there was no documentation of such a call. He considered these allegations to be part of a political campaign aimed at diverting attention from signals that had been emerging hours before the attack, which were noted by former security officials and pointed to the possibility of an imminent attack.

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