Hamas praised the attack in a statement but did not claim responsibility.
âTogether with all the people of Israel, I pray for the full and speedy recovery of those wounded in the attack,â said Netanyahuâs main rival, former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, said in a statement on X.
The two issues the opposition has highlighted are understandably important to Israelis. For so many citizens, the disaster of 7 October and subsequent two-year hostage crisis became a crisis of faith in the state itself. Without accountability through an independent inquiry, society cannot move on. And even staunch supporters of peace cannot tolerate the rank injustice of some citizens serving and dying in wars while others are systematically let off the hook.
But what then? Israelâs war in response to 7 October has continued to devastate Palestinian society. But the past few years have damaged Israel internally as well.
Overall, 19% of respondents said they support Hamas, compared to 24% in a poll conducted this August, and 35% in August 2025.
Among Gaza residents, 27% said they support Hamas, down from 33% in August and 41% in October last year. Support was lowest in the West Bank, where just 13% of respondents said they support Hamas, compared to 32% in October last year.
In the early months of the war, establishing a state commission appeared to command broad political support, including among some Likud lawmakers and ministers. Over time, however, alternative proposals emerged, including a government-appointed panel and a commission whose members would be chosen through an agreement between coalition and opposition representatives.
None of those proposals has resulted in an inquiry.
The appeal by the October Council families follows a July 2024 report by Nadav Eyal in ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth revealing that Maj. Gen. (res.) Avi Gil, Netanyahu‘s military secretary at the time of the massacre, had contacted the attorney general to express concerns that attempts had been made to alter official transcripts in the Prime Minister‘s Office during the war.
(October 6, 2026)
LONSDORF: NPR has spoken to four people in the Middle East with direct knowledge of such warnings, which the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the New York Times and the Atlantic first reported, confirming much of the reporting that Netanyahu is trying to deny. The ripple effects of those reports are playing out as Israelis are preparing to head to the polls in less than three weeks.
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Abu Shehadeh, a key figure in the Palestinian-majority Joint List, was disqualified from standing last month by the Central Elections Committee, a body controlled by the governing coalition.
His disqualification centred on an article he wrote in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel on 7 October.
The article, titled âThe Al-Aqsa Flood: Preliminary Observationsâ, was published in Arabic by the Arab48 news outlet on 8 October 2023. It presented a preliminary analysis of the attack and its ramifications.
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He also wrote that the attack showed that âIsrael and its intelligence services are made up of human beings like usâ and could âbe prevented from penetrating our countries, parties, and political movements â if there is the will to do so and if we organise ourselves properlyâ.
Benjamin Netanyahu traveled secretly to the United Arab Emirates over the weekend to ask its leader to deny reports heâd warned the Israeli prime minister about a looming Hamas threat ahead of the Palestinian militant groupâs Oct. 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel.
The meeting between Netanyahu and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan took place on Sunday, two people who were briefed on the Israeli leaderâs trip confirmed on Monday.
Mossad Director Roman Gofman travelled with Netanyahu to the UAE on Sunday, according to Israel Hayom. The paper said the delegation also included Shmuel Ben Ezra, who heads the National Security Council and serves as national security adviser, a senior official from the Shin Bet‘s VIP Protection Unit, and senior members of the prime minister‘s own team. The report does not say whether any of them sat in on the meeting with Mohammed bin Zayed.
After initial reports of a warning from Bin Zayed, the UAEâs Foreign Ministry said earlier this month that it âdoes not comment on media stories or speculation regarding conversations between government leaders,â but it did not deny the call. âWhen necessary, all relevant intelligence has been and continues to be communicated between the relevant entities,â the statement said.
At the time, an Israeli source familiar with the matter said Netanyahuâs office tried to get the UAE to deny the report, but the UAE only agreed to issue a statement about intelligence sharing.
Der neue Bericht beruft sich auf Regierungsvertreter in Israel, Ăgypten und weiteren arabischen LĂ€ndern sowie auf Vertreter in den USA und Europa. The Atlantic schreibt, dass Ăgyptens damaliger Geheimdienstchef Abbas Kamel Israel bereits elf Tage vor dem 7. Oktober vor einer drohenden Eskalation gewarnt habe. Kamel sei dafĂŒr eigens nach Israel geflogen. Sein Flugzeug habe sich 67 Minuten am Flughafen Ben Gurion aufgehalten.
(September 25, 2026)
Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhoodâaligned terrorist group that controlled Gaza, appeared to be mobilizing for a major attack, Kamel said, according to Israeli, Egyptian, Arab, U.S., and European officials who were briefed about his visit after October 7. The window to prevent a disaster was closing. He recommended that the Israeli government grant Hamas economic concessions to avert conflict. His message, according to one former Israeli official later briefed on the visit, was: If you donât change course, Gaza is going to blow up in your faces.
Kamel didnât provide Israeli officials with a date or specific information on what turned out to be a multipronged attack on Israel less than two weeks later, on October 7. And itâs not clear exactly with whom he met. The Egyptian plane remained on the ground in Israel for 67 minutes, according to an Israeli-airport-authority flight log, before returning to Cairo. (Independent flight-tracking applications confirm the planeâs journey.)
(September 25, 2026)
Mr. Netanyahu has denied the report.
But a person who said they had spoken with Sheikh Mohammed and another person who said they had been briefed by someone on the call between the two leaders told The New York Times that the Emirati leader had secretly reported to Mr. Netanyahu that Hamas was considering a major attack.
The warning from the Emirati leader, however, never reached the leaders of Israelâs security establishment, according to five former senior Israeli officials.
(October 12, 2023)
„We know that Egypt has warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen,“ Mr McCaul told reporters following a closed-door intelligence briefing on Wednesday for lawmakers about the Middle East crisis, according to AFP news agency.
„I don‘t want to get too much into classified, but a warning was given,“ the Texas Republican added. „I think the question was at what level.“
According to reports from Israel Defense Forces (IDF) radio, prior to the alleged UAE warning, Israel‘s internal security agency had received similar warnings from Egypt, which were communicated to Prime Minister Netanyahu. Egyptian intelligence services issued only a „general warning,“ without providing specific details, about the Palestinian movement‘s intention to „shake the ground in Gaza.“
(September 8, 2026)
JERUSALEM (AP) â Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was directly warned by the president of the United Arab Emirates that Hamas was planning a major offensive just days before the militant group attacked on Oct. 7, 2023, according to an Israeli newspaper report.
UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed spoke with Netanyahu 10 days before the attack and said Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza at the time, was planning an operation, the Haaretz daily said.
Neuere Medienberichte, insbesondere von Haaretz, stĂ€rken den Verdacht, dass der Angriff des 7. Oktobers 2023 von der israelischen Regierung bewusst zugelassen worden war, und möglicherweise durch die Hannibal-Doktrin mit vollem Wissen um die Vielzahl der dadurch entstehenden zivilen israelischen Opfer sogar verstĂ€rkt worden war, um daraus eine Rechtfertigung fĂŒr Völkermord, ethnische SĂ€uberung und sogar Krieg gegen den Iran zu ziehen.
An investigation published by ‚Haaretz‘ claims the Israeli prime minister was informed by UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed, 10 days before the attack, that Hamas was planning a major operation against Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received an explicit warning about a major operation being planned by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar shortly before the October 7 attack, according to a new book by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval. The account also alleges that Netanyahu received a separate warning from Egypt in the days before the massacre and later declined to authorize a renewed proposal to target senior Hamas leaders, including Sinwar.
Der Inhalt des Berichts hat es in sich: 45 Minuten lang soll der PrĂ€sident der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Mohammed bin Zayed, Ende September 2023 mit Israels Premierminister Benjamin Netanjahu telefoniert haben. Eindringlich habe er in dem GesprĂ€ch vor einem bevorstehenden GroĂangriff der Hamas gewarnt – und das nur anderthalb Wochen vor dem 7. Oktober 2023. Also vor dem Tag, an dem die Hamas Israel ĂŒberfiel, fast 1.200 Menschen tötete und etwa 250 als Geiseln nahm.
(June 29, 2026)
The clip was shot very early on the morning of the raid. We know this because Israeli forces conducted âHannibal Directive attacksâ on its own people, on average around three times an hour, from just after 6am that day until after 9pm. The Hannibal order was clarified as âkill anything that movesâ â hundreds of Israelis were killed, including most of those slain at the âNovaâ music festival.
Israeli media admit this. Israeli military figures have admitted killing an âimmenseâ number of their own people. Israelâs then-defence minister, wanted war criminal Yoâav Gallant, admitted it â and said he wished it had been used more. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu allegedly even tried to have one specific captured soldier killed before his release from Gaza to prevent a ceasefire.
UK politicians and media continue to keep silent about it â and even attack those who expose it.
(July 17, 2026)
Dieser Artikel ist eine erweiterte Neuauflage eines Artikels zur Hannibal-Direktive, der 2024 auf den NachDenkSeiten erschienen ist.
Das Video wurde offenbar in den Morgenstunden im israelischen Polizei-Kommandozentrum in Jerusalem aufgenommen. Zu sehen ist ein GesprĂ€ch zwischen dem damaligen israelischen Polizeichef Kobi Shabtai und anderen hochrangigen Vertretern von Polizei und MilitĂ€r. Dort fĂ€llt der entscheidende Satz. âNein in Gaza. Zerstört alles. Zusammen mit den entfĂŒhrten Soldaten.â Kurze Zeit spĂ€ter betritt der damalige Minister fĂŒr Ăffentliche Sicherheit, Itamar Ben-Gvir, den Raum und unterbindet das weitere Filmen.
Coalition-backed bill would allow continuity into next Knesset and create a six-member committee to investigate the massacre, war and events that preceded them, in place of a state commission of inquiry
(June 30, 2026)
The fear that Israel is actually quite close to such a postponement cuts across much of Israeli society. Iâve heard it expressed by secular liberals, military veterans, former intelligence officials, legal scholars, journalists, centrist politicians, and even some conservatives who once supported Netanyahu enthusiastically. What unites them is the growing belief that Netanyahu now considers remaining in power to be an existential necessity â and that his radical base will back him no matter what outrage he attempts.
(05.03.2020)
Das Bundesamt fĂŒr Verfassungsschutz arbeitet im âBerner Clubâ mit den Auslandsgeheimdiensten Mossad und CIA zusammen. Mit weiteren Behörden tauscht der deutsche Inlandsgeheimdienst Informationen zu ânicht-islamistischem Terrorismusâ sowie âRechts- und Linksextremismusâ. Wegen des âStaatswohlsâ hielt die Bundesregierung diese Details bislang geheim.