The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has officially announced his intention to file a defamation lawsuit. The leader seeks to take legal action against the newspaper Haaretz and those responsible for a journalistic investigation that claims the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed, warned him about an imminent Hamas attack before October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n\n
According to the Israeli media publication, both leaders held a 45-minute telephone conversation. In said dialogue, the Emirati president reportedly alerted Netanyahu about the plans of Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas, warning that his actions would cause destabilization in the Middle East and put the Abraham Accords at risk. However, the prime minister has flatly denied having held this contact in the period between the beginning of September and the date of the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n
There is no possibility of entering the Prime Minister’s office without documentation and registration by the security services.<\/p>\nBenjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel<\/cite>\n\n\n In the face of the accusations, Netanyahu’s cabinet conducted an exhaustive review of telephone and security records. According to the leader, there is no evidence whatsoever of such a call, nor of the use of encrypted phones that, according to the journalistic report, had been provided by Emirati representatives in his office. Netanyahu described the information as malicious slander for political purposes, linking it to the country’s electoral context.<\/p>\n\n This legal conflict adds to the recent controversy sparked by Netanyahu when he questioned military and security commanders, whom he accused of not notifying him in time about the situation on the morning of October 7. Meanwhile, the Government of the United Arab Emirates has limited itself to stating that it has shared relevant intelligence with Israel when necessary, maintaining a cautious stance regarding the investigations published by the local press.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Benjamin Netanyahu announces legal action against Israeli media outlet over October 7 report The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has officially announced his intention to file a defamation lawsuit. The leader seeks to take legal action against the newspaper Haaretz and those responsible for a journalistic investigation that claims the President of the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[15349,13673,7563,13981],"class_list":{"0":"post-156922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-haaretz","9":"tag-hamas","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-netanyahu"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Official defense and denial<\/h3>\n\n
Internal tensions in Israel<\/h3>\n\n