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عربية – DW
Netanyahu's response to Zayed's warning
About a week and a half before the October 7, 2023 attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a direct warning from Emirati President Mohamed bin Zayed regarding a major operation that Hamas was preparing to carry out, according to Israeli journalists' accounts. Bin Zayed called Netanyahu for 45 minutes and warned that Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning an operation that could have repercussions beyond the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This call occurred at a time when Netanyahu and his team did not pass along the warning to security agencies, sparking political and security controversy within Israel as parliamentary elections approached. Meanwhile, the UAE refrained from commenting. Renewed accusations have emerged about Israel's failure to act on prior warnings before the attack, with ongoing debates over Netanyahu's responsibility for security lapses, amid rising political criticism and investigations aimed at assessing the mistakes that led to the security breakdown.
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