Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he would sue the Haaretz daily over its report that said he had been warned by the Emirati president about Hamas plans to attack Israel days before the October 7, 2023, onslaught and didn’t act on the information.
Netanyahu reasserted on X that there had been no call between him and Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed between early September 2023 and the October 7 invasion. He argued that any such call would have left clear documentation, which he said has not been found by the Prime Minister’s Office team.
“This is a sinister libel with clear political timing, as part of the left’s election campaign, and there will be more such false libels,” he said, claiming yet again that had he been alerted by Israel’s security chiefs about the signs of a potential Hamas attack hours before it started, “the terrible massacre could have been prevented.”
He said he has ordered his lawyers to sue the outlet and reporter Shlomi Eldar, who wrote the story.
In response, Haaretz said it stood by its reporting.
