Benjamin Netanyahu is unfit to serve as Israel's prime minister, opposition leaders said Tuesday, after reports emerged that the United Arab Emirates had warned him before Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas incursion.
Haaretz newspaper, in a report excerpted from a forthcoming book by its reporters, said UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan spoke to Netanyahu a week and a half before the attack and told him that Hamas was planning a major operation.
Netanyahu's office, however, called the report by the left-leaning newspaper "an absolute lie" and denied he spoke to the Emirati leader at that time.
Gadi Eisenkot, a former military commander who has emerged as Netanyahu's top rival in upcoming Oct. 27 elections, accused the long-serving prime minister of evading responsibility for security lapses and resorting to "pathetic" excuses, such as saying he was not woken up soon enough on the morning of the attack.
"Netanyahu received dozens of warnings for Oct. 7 and ignored them all. He is unfit," Eisenkot wrote on X.
