Israeli Press
Israeli papers argue over a pre-October 7 warning and new poll
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What the Israeli front pages carried Wednesday and Thursday, for Palestinian readers.
Haaretz led with its own investigation: the UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu roughly ten days before 7 October 2023 that Hamas was preparing a "surprise" attack, using an encrypted channel through Palestinian intermediaries. Netanyahu's office called the story a lie from "a left-wing newspaper."
Maariv carried the political fallout across a dozen items: Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana blaming the leak on the exiled Fatah figure Mohammed Dahlan, Dahlan's Democratic Reform Current firing back that "Gaza's future will not be…
a bargaining chip in Israeli elections," and Yair Golan announcing a 2.5 million-shekel defamation suit against Sara Netanyahu over a Channel 14 interview he says echoed a conspiracy theory that her husband knew of the attack in advance.
Walla's first post-registration poll gave Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar 25 seats to Likud's 21, with Ofer Winter's new list clearing the threshold and lifting Netanyahu's bloc to 51 — ten short of a majority.
Ynet reported a tunnel found metres from the seam-line barrier near Jerusalem, which a Border Police commander said matches a route once used to smuggle militants and weapons.
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